Oracle GoldenGate for DBFS supports the following:

• Supported DDL (like TRUNCATE or ALTER) on DBFS objects except for CREATE statements on the DBFS objects. CREATE on DBFS must be excluded from the configuration, as must any schemas that will hold the created DBFS objects. The reason to exclude CREATES is that the metadata for DBFS must be properly populated in the SYS dictionary tables (which itself is excluded from Oracle GoldenGate capture by default).

• Capture and replication of DML on the tables that underlie the DBFS file system.

The procedures that follow assume that Oracle GoldenGate is configured properly to support active-active configuration. This means that it must be:

• Installed according to the instructions in this guide.

• Configured according to the instructions in the Oracle GoldenGate Windows and UNIX Administrator's Guide.