Oracle8 Backup and Recovery Handbook [Paperback]

Rama Velpuri (Author), Anand Adkoli (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0078823897 | ISBN-13: 978-0078823893 | Publication Date: January 1998 | Edition: 1

This solution-oriented resource, revised for Oracle8, focuses exclusively on issues related to backup and recovery. It begins with a background discussion on Oracle's architecture, then delves into topics such as: backup principles - physical and logical backups, backup commands; backup scripts - specific scripts to run in a VMS or UNIX environment; recovery principles and methods; and diagnostic tools and debugging techniques. This edition includes a set of backup and recovery techniques and ten new case studies, which should nearly double the case-study section in page count. The case studies cover issues such as tablespace, point-in-time recovery, recovering an altered table and recovering a partitioned table. The book provides real-world solutions to actual backup and recovery issues in Oracle8. Rama Velpuri is the author of "Oracle Backup and Recovery Handbook 7.3".

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Expert Protection for Your Company's Most Valuable Asset.

Protect your data now - and recover what's been lost - using real-world techniques, solutions, and case studies from Rama Velpuri and Anand Adkoli, the world's leading authorities on Oracle database backup and recovery. Now completely revised and updated for Oracle8, this Oracle Press best-seller is essential reading for every Oracle DBA.

Understand Oracle8's enhancements for the maintenance of Very Large Databases (VLDBs) Master Oracle8's new backup and recovery features, such as Tablespace point-in-time recovery and Recovery Manager Get in-depth knowledge of Oracle8 on Windows NT Develop critical backup scripts for VMS, Windows NT, and UNIX environments. Gain valuable recovery principles and methods - plus expert backup principles for physical and logical backups Implement Oracle8's diagnostic tools and learn new debugging techniques. Discover a completely new set of backup and recovery techniques and find solutions to common Oracle8 user errors Learn directly from real-world backup and recovery case studies on TSPIT recovering altered and partitioned tables, and recovery using rman

Protect your data and your career! Oracle8 Backup & Recovery Handbook is required reading for anyone responsible for strategic data management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078823897
• ISBN-13: 978-0078823893
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,289,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, should be rewritten, February 4, 2000

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Marc-Oliver Ihm (Mainz Deutschland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle8 Backup and Recovery Handbook (Paperback)

As oracle has intoduced rman with version 8 as its primary backup tool, I expected the book to dwell mainly on the new tool and explain features, usage and common procedures for backup/recovery with rman in depth. All of this is missing. Barely 60 pages are devoted to rman and half of them is about creating a standby database (which is not what I want right now !). I think this book had it merits in Version 7 and probably it covers all the old stuff very well, but it is nearly useless for version 8. Unfortunately there seems to be no better book on this subject right now.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Little description of RMAN, November 18, 1999

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vijay wakode ([e-mail]) (Sacramento,CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle8 Backup and Recovery Handbook (Paperback)

This book has a very little descrition of RMAN, which is new to Oracle 8. I thought this book might cover RMAN and an integration with Legato, Networker or any other third party backup solution product, a little bit , but it did not. It is still a good conceptual book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive backup/recovery resource for every Oracle DBA!, September 21, 2000

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Jill McAfee (Fort Thomas, KY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle8 Backup and Recovery Handbook (Paperback)

I found this book to be wonderfully helpful in every aspect of the backup and recovery process. It addresses everything from planning to disaster recovery, including documented backup and recovery examples. I highly recommend this book as a reference and a day-to-day resource.