Oracle Dataguard: Standby Database Failover Handbook (Oracle In-Focus series) [Paperback]

Bipul Kumar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | Series: Oracle In-Focus series (Book 19)

This guide for using Dataguard technology covers all areas of disaster recovery, standby databases, and automatic Oracle failover. The details of how Oracle10g's improved Dataguard provides a comprehensive solution for disaster recovery while keeping a low TCO are discussed. Descriptions of the concepts and architecture of standby databases as well as the implementation and management of Dataguard are provided. Tips for success in configuration and first-time implementation of Dataguard including the internal working of Dataguard Broker and Dataguard with Recovery Manager are revealed.

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About the Author

Bipul Kumar is a senior application engineer for a telecommunications company. He is responsible for Oracle database administration, performance tuning, recovery, and application development. He has more than six years of experience in creating and managing Oracle Databases of varying sizes, primarily on UNIX operating systems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Rampant Techpress (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974599387
• ISBN-13: 978-0974599380
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,023,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good information, April 8, 2005

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Borg Selnik (MI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Dataguard: Standby Database Failover Handbook (Oracle In-Focus series) (Paperback)

Few months ago we decided to implement Data Guard for three of our databases and the only help available at that time was 1000+ pages of Oracle Manual. Book by Mathew Hart doesn't go beneath the skin of this important topic. Later last month, this book on data guard was bought for our department and initially I was hesitant to spend time reading it (usually I read only O'REILLY books). But low and behold, final verdict is : its a good informative book.

1. Covers all areas of Oracle Data Gurad.

2. Written simply - No imaginative stories.

3. Best suitable for usual data guard jobs -- setting up, managing , switchover etc.

However, it could have been better. In my opinion it lacks

1. Coverage of Data Guard interaction with OEM.

2. Running data guard in RAC (though its not much different than single instance).

Worth the money (even though it wasn't mine ! ).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great book about Data Guard!, May 8, 2007

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Paulo Portugal (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Dataguard: Standby Database Failover Handbook (Oracle In-Focus series) (Paperback)

This book talks about a lot of functionalities of Data Guard.

I recommend this if you want to learn install, manager and tuning your Data Guard enviroment.

Best Regards,

Paulo Portugal.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless-The oracle documents are as good, December 11, 2006

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Kevin D. Stone "lost soul" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Dataguard: Standby Database Failover Handbook (Oracle In-Focus series) (Paperback)

I thought that this book would be better than the online oracle documentation. It isn't. In fact it is pretty much a regurgitation of the stuff in the mostly worthless Oracle Dataguard Concepts and Administration document. I needed much more info regarding how to set up the standby host including how to initially configure oracle (ie. should you create a DB when you install or not?) Even after buying this book I found myself Googling to get the info I needed.