Product Description

Attain real solutions for current availability challenges. Based on a “DBA-centric” approach to High Availability, Oracle Database 10g High Availability concentrates on explaining Oracle Database 10g technologies and practices to database administrators, covering general availability, real application clusters (RAC), disaster planning and recovery, and distributed database solutions. Hardware and application needs are also taken into account. While Oracle Database 10g is the main focus, many of the options discussed are available in earlier database releases. Organized to provide conceptual understanding of High Availability, included are “HA Workshops,” step-by-step instructions to get you through certain implementations, plus real-world inspired case studies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #370920 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

About the Author
Matthew Hart (Colorado Springs, CO) has worked exclusively with the Windows Operating System for more than 5 years, the last 3 of which have been with Oracle Corporation, assisting Oracle customer implement the RDBMS on Windows NT and 2000. From 1999 onward, his role has increasingly become focused on Oracle’s high availability solutions, specifically Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Advanced Replication. For the past 6 months he has been involved in the beta testing of Oracle9i, and he currently supports beta customers who are rolling out 9i into the enterprise. Matthew became an Oracle Certified Professional in May 1999.

Scott Jesse (Colorado Springs, CO) is an Oracle Certified Professional who has worked extensively with the Windows NT Operating System for more than 7 years. Scott began by deploying Windows NT on a corporate-wide rollout for more than 3000 users while working for MCI Worldcom. For the past 5 years, Scott has worked in the Oracle support organization, primarily assisting Oracle customers in implementing the Oracle RDBMS on Window NT. For the last 3 years, Scott has specialized in clustering and high availability technologies on the Windows NT platform, including Oracle Failsafe and Oracle Parallel Server.

Customer Reviews

Explains high availability and the tools to use
I found this book very useful. As a novice OCP DBA I especially found the introduction to RAC and the step by step approach in the workshops very useful. The workshops can easily be tried out on your own LINUX box. Likewise I found the coverage of standby databases and how to use RMAN in a high availability environment very useful. I can recommend this book for its easy read and good way of explaining complicated issues like setting up RAC.

A Very Good Book
This book covers 3 main topics,in just over 400 pages. You'd maybe think that this was too much for a small-medium size book to cover well. Fear not - all 3 topics are well explained and useful workshops are included, too. For RAC, I would absolutely recommend "Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux" by Dyke & Shaw, as it's an enclyclopedia of RAC, and fills-in any gaps that "Oracle Database 10g High Availability with RAC..." has.