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

by Bipul Kumar (Author)
Key Phrases: remote file server, logical standby database, log apply service, Data Guard, Oracle Net, Recovery Manager (more...)

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Product Description
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.

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; illustrated edition edition (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974599387
• ISBN-13: 978-0974599380
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #101,810 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

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

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

By	Paulo Portugal (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not very useful, October 4, 2005

By	DBAdmin (California) - See all my reviews

I had high hopes when I purchased the book. After reading it over, I found it poorly organized, written and edited. The information was little more than what's available in the Oracle documents and in metalink, as has been pointed out. The cartoons sprinkled throughout were distracting, amateurish, unfunny, and, in the case of the one on page 210, offensive.
I have several books in this series and really like a few of them. Oracle Privacy Security Auditing is especially good. I wish the same were true of this waste of good paper.