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

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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 ! ).

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.

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.

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.

Not cover 10g too much. Majority of the contents were duplicated from 9iR2 oracle metalink notes . Authors only cover Dataguard broker (CLI) by few topics . As matter of fact, this make me disappointed.

The writers like to subsitute the Oracle manual in OTN but make no difference . eg, I wanted to setup the Dataguard through EM10g Grid Control. In fact , the creation standby database wizard was filled of bugs and user can't make use of it till patching and huge manual works. It's no doubt that writers never tried on this features. The book is rather splotchy and winding.

The book is full of incomplete SQL statements. I had hoped this book would have had a step by step how to for creating a standby database. I also wish they had gone into DGMGRL more.

It's great, this book help me in most situations where i needed resolve some kind of problems in my Database enviroment and also this book help me a lot to improve my database skills. Absolutely fantastic.Oracle Dataguard: Standby Database Failover Handbook (Oracle In-Focus series)

This book is really bad. It may be technically correct, but is completely useless for actually understanding the Oracle Data Guard system. I would like to know _why_ I am typing something, not just _what_ to type (on Bipul's machine, in his network, BTW) Also, by trying to be correct for versions 9 and 10, the book becomes incoherent quickly.

I read this book and its good coverage for command line with Data Guard and concepts. Very useful and have used it on several projects to implement standby databases. Now would be great to see one that covers new features for 10gR2 and 11g.

It helps in setting up and managing standby databases. Author is biased towards physical standby database more than logical standby. Overall a good book. Chapter on performance tuning of data guard is useful.