Product Description

Learn cutting-edge technology from Oracle experts

Written by Oracle insiders, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about Real Application Clusters -- low-cost hardware platforms that can rival and exceed the quality of service, availability, and scalability of the most expensive mainframe systems.

• Concepts covered are applicable to all previous versions of Oracle
• Tuning and troubleshooting tips, providing insight on the most advanced diagnostics available
• Detailed coverage of advanced RAC concepts
• Working code for all examples available online

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209707 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 421 pages

Oraclehome.co.uk, March 2007
Very clear, concise and well laid out. Includes screen shots, diagrams and
command line code...a good handbook

From the Back Cover
Learn to Implement Oracle Real Application Clusters Technology from the Ground Up

Maximize database availability, scalability, and efficiency using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the in-depth information contained in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook explains RAC concepts, administration, tuning, and troubleshooting. Inside, you'll learn how to prepare and create Oracle RAC databases and servers, and automate administrative tasks. You'll also get full coverage of cutting-edge Oracle RAC diagnostic tools, backup and recovery procedures, performance tweaks, and custom application design strategies.

• Install, configure, and administer Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters
• Use Automatic Storage Management and manage the disk groups
• Administer Oracle RAC databases and instances, and manage the Services voting disk
• Implement workload management, intelligent load balancing, and Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
• Execute RAC backup and recovery operations
• Analyze and tune performance using AWR and AWR reports
• Understand the internals of lock and resource management in RAC
• Troubleshoot Oracle RAC databases with LMON traces, LMD traces, and alert logs
• Design and debug applications that run on Oracle Real Application Clusters

About the Author
K Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) is a senior principal consultant with the Advanced Technology Services group at Oracle Corporation, specializing exclusively in performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery. He is a recognized expert in Oracle RAC and Database Internals and has used his extensive expertise in solving many vexing performance issues all across the world for telecom giants, banks, financial institutions, and universities. Gopal has more than a decade of Oracle expertise backed by an engineering degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Madras, India.

Gopal has previously co-authored an award-winning Oracle Press book, Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning. He was awarded an Editor's Choice award for Oracle Author of the Year by Oracle Magazine in 2005. Gopal was also chosen as an Oracle ACE by Oracle Technology Network (http://oracle.com/technology/index.html) in 2006.

Customer Reviews

Shaping your carrier from DBA to RAC Expert
I have gone through couple of books, which has been written on Real Application Cluster but none of them could unfold the mystries behind the subject, the way Gopal has done in his book.
In this book RAC internals are presneted in such a way that DBA new to Oracle world can also understand and digest the knowledge shared by author.
I have used this book as a reference for couple of my porjects for 10g RAC. The best I found in this book is Part 1 and Part 4 (GRD and Cache Fusion), the examples to show how cache fusion and synchronization of data works.
Definately this book is one of the other best books on my desk.