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Oracle Real Application Clusters [Paperback]

Murali Vallath (Author)
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November 5, 2003 1555582885 978-1555582883 1
Clustered configuration first hit the scene nearly 20 years ago when Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VaxCluster. Until now, the topic of Real Application Clusters (RAC) implementation had never been fully explored. For the first time, Murali Vallath dissects RAC mysteries in his book Oracle Real Application Clusters to enlighten and educate readers on the internals of RAC operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes and the fast reconfiguration of RAC.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles of RAC that is part of the Oracle9i release of Oracle's RDBMS product. It is divided into three main parts: application/database design, development and maintenance life cycles.
Compared to its predecessor OPS, the architecture behind RAC implementation have changed significantly. Vallath discusses Oracle9i features in a RAC implementation with respect to usage and design considerations, as well as those parameters that are and are not applicable. Areas covered include partitioning, indexes, tablespace management, transaction management, backup and recovery principles. Performance tuning with examples, troubleshooting and problem solving scenarios are covered in detail, as well as discussions on the migration process from a single instance database to RAC and migration from an OPS implementation to RAC.
Oracle Real Application Clusters takes readers through a logical flow from RAC concepts to operations, covering each facet with a fine-tooth comb. Vallath's skilled writing style makes each chapter entertaining and informative as only a true RAC connoisseur can provide. New and experienced users of RAC, as well as those seeking to expand their knowledge of this dynamic technology, will find this book to be a necessity for both home and office reference libraries.

*Focuses on implementing, testing and tuning features of Real Application Clusters (RAC)
*Provides extensive coverage of usage, day-to-day functions and operations
*Includes tips and techniques such as script samples to illustrate various features of RAC
*Unravels the internals of RAC architecture

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Practical guide to RAC architecture for data base managers to manage Oracle9i clusters

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"The latest versions of Oracle®, 9i RAC and 10g, both include important features in the area of performance optimization and high availability. The new features can be daunting if you don"t have experts in house, and having the right roadmap to help you through these new features is critical. This book does an excellent job at recognizing the setup, migration, and performance challenges every company will face, and will help your company optimize instance efficiency in your production database environment. Whether you are planning a move to Oracle® 9i RAC, Oracle 10g, or just want to get the most out of your base Oracle® system, I highly recommend this book."-Jeff Carter, Chief Technology Officer, Elogex, Inc.

For the first time, Murali Vallath dissects the mysteries of Real Application Clusters (RAC) in his book Oracle Real Application Clusters to enlighten and educate you on the internals of RAC operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes, and the fast reconfiguration of RAC.

Oracle Real Application Clusters takes you through a logical flow from RAC concepts to operations, covering each facet with a fine-tooth comb. New and experienced users of RAC, as well as those seeking to expand their knowledge of this dynamic technology, will find this book to be a necessity for both home and office reference libraries.

Vallath provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology, and principles of RAC that is part of the Oracle9i, 9iR2 and 10G release of Oracle's RDBMS product. It is divided into three main parts: application/database design, development, and maintenance life cycles. Compared to its predecessor OPS, the architecture behind RAC implementation has changed significantly. Vallath discusses the various features in a RAC implementation with respect to usage and design considerations, as well as those parameters that are and are not applicable. Areas covered include partitioning, indexes, tablespace management, transaction management, backup, and recovery principles. Performance tuning with examples, troubleshooting, and problem solving scenarios are covered in detail, as well as discussions on the migration process from a single instance database to RAC and migration from an OPS implementation to RAC.

Scripts included in this book can be downloaded at www.summersky.biz.

Features coverage of:

· Administration including trouble shooting of RAC
· Configuration of Transparent Application Failover (TAF), using JDBC thick and thin clients
· Configuration of Oracle Net Services etc.
· Tools used for tuning a RAC configuration
· Oracle"s wait interface, including waits specific to a RAC instance and its practical application.
· Using Oracle"s event interface to tune complex SQL queries
· Extensive coverage of usage, day-to-day functions and operations
· Tips and techniques such as script samples to illustrate various features of RAC
· Comparisons with Oracle parallel server
· Discussions on implementing RAC on various operating systems
· Analyzing using Oracle dumps
· Functions of GCS and GES services with respect to transaction management and transaction recovery
· Internals of RAC architecture

Murali Vallath has over 17 years of information technology experience. He specializes in implementation, configuration and performance tuning of Oracle parallel server/Oracle real application clusters. He has numerous RAC implementations to his credit. He is a regular contributor to the Oracle-L list server and is a regular speaker at various national and international conferences on Oracle parallel server/Oracle real application cluster and performance tuning topics. Vallath can be reached at murali.vallath@summersky.biz or muralivallath@hotmail.com.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 781 pages
  • Publisher: Digital Press; 1 edition (November 5, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1555582885
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555582883
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,415,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Vallath has more than 22 years of IT experience including over 16 years using Oracle products. Vallath is an Oracle ACE Director and an Oracle Certified Database Administrator. He has worked on a variety of database platforms for small to very large implementations, designing databases for high volume, machine critical, real time OLTP systems. His expertise is with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Vallath released his second book titled Oracle 10g RAC, Grid, Services & Clustering in March 2006 and has co-authored his third book titled 'Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) November 2007, from Oracle Press.
Vallath currently provides independent consulting services in the areas of capacity planning, high availability solutions and performance tuning of Oracle environments through Summersky Enterprises (www.summersky.biz) with operations in USA and India. He has successfully completed over 100 successful small, medium and terabyte sized RAC implementations (Oracle 9i thru Oracle 11gR2) for reputed corporate firms.

 

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Book on RAC, December 30, 2003
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"cindygilbert8" (Fermingham, MA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a complete reference that provides 100% business value to professionals using or moving to RAC.

We have already used many of his scripts over the last two weeks in our test environment and has helped us move forward considerably. His internals chapter is excellent. Good work Murali. I highly recommend this book

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!, December 30, 2003
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"davesmithdba" (CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This book has depth; the contents are full of meat. In these pages is something for everyone. Murali discusses RAC starting with the single instance and covers clustering, it covers internals to a great detail.

Installation and Performance tuning chapters are no exception. Author focus has been Oracle while touching on Linux and Windows installation.

The book presents the topic in a clear and concise fashion.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book, December 14, 2003
This review is from: Oracle Real Application Clusters (Paperback)
This is a great book, a must have for a DBA working on RAC. This is one of the two best books purchased by me this year. The other book is the book by Cary Millsap.

Excellent A-Z coverage of Oracle with respect to RAC. Covers all features single instance, cluster configurations, best practices etc in great detail.

Performance tuning chapter is well explained, the author is on the right track, he discourages the use of ratio for tuning and encourages using a scientific method for tuning the system. He explains using STATSPACK,Wait Interface and Events to track down the cause of the problem.

This is an excellent buy.

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