Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) (Paperback)

by K Gopalakrishnan (Author)
Key Phrases: redolog files, voting disk, load balancing advisory, Enterprise Manager, Data Guard, Real Application Clusters (more...)

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Product Description
Learn cutting-edge technology from Oracle experts

Written by Oracle insiders, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about Real Application Clusters -- low-cost hardware platforms that can rival and exceed the quality of service, availability, and scalability of the most expensive mainframe systems.

• Concepts covered are applicable to all previous versions of Oracle
• Tuning and troubleshooting tips, providing insight on the most advanced diagnostics available
• Detailed coverage of advanced RAC concepts
• Working code for all examples available online

From the Back Cover
Learn to Implement Oracle Real Application Clusters Technology from the Ground Up

Maximize database availability, scalability, and efficiency using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the in-depth information contained in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook explains RAC concepts, administration, tuning, and troubleshooting. Inside, you'll learn how to prepare and create Oracle RAC databases and servers, and automate administrative tasks. You'll also get full coverage of cutting-edge Oracle RAC diagnostic tools, backup and recovery procedures, performance tweaks, and custom application design strategies.

• Install, configure, and administer Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters
• Use Automatic Storage Management and manage the disk groups
• Administer Oracle RAC databases and instances, and manage the Services voting disk
• Implement workload management, intelligent load balancing, and Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
• Execute RAC backup and recovery operations
• Analyze and tune performance using AWR and AWR reports
• Understand the internals of lock and resource management in RAC
• Troubleshoot Oracle RAC databases with LMON traces, LMD traces, and alert logs
• Design and debug applications that run on Oracle Real Application Clusters
  
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Product Details

• Paperback: 421 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007146509X
• ISBN-13: 978-0071465090
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #117,276 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely well written with tremendous in-depth coverage of RAC internals, April 23, 2007

By	JEFFREY M. HUNTER "Jeffrey M. Hunter" (Butler, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

By far, the best book I have read on the subject of Oracle10g RAC. Given the success of Gopalakrishnan as coauthor of the book "Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning", I was eager to see his work on a subject as involved as Oracle10g RAC. I am happy to say that Gopal did an outstanding and thorough job! Every chapter of this book is clear and well written with accurate demonstrations and valuable illustrations. This book is for both beginners as well as seasoned Oracle professions.

What I found most useful was the in-depth coverage of Cache Fusion and Global Resource Directory as well as a thorough troubleshooting section. The author also provides extensive coverage on installation and architecture concerns, backup and recovery in RAC, performance monitoring, workload balancing and distribution, connection management, as well as application development and extensions to the RAC architecture. Oracle's Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature is fully explained as well as many other basic and advanced administration topics.

The only area of improvement I would suggest is greater coverage on backing up and recovering the two key Oracle Clusterware shared components: the Voting Disk and the Oracle Cluster Registry File. Although the book does contain information pertaining to backing up and recovering these resources, I felt that these two files are critical enough to the operation of Oracle Clusterware that a full working example would be helpful. Possibly a workshop that fully details how to recover a voting disk and cluster registry file after the loss of both files.

I would highly recommend this book to DBA's and Developers tasked with working in an Oracle10g RAC environment. You will not be disappointment!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you ever wanted to know about RAC and more....., March 3, 2007

By	Sebe Kingsview "Sebe" (NY,USA) - See all my reviews

Just got this much expected book from Gopal! Absolutely fantastic...It is certainly very detailed and in-depth was my immediate impression.

Many topics are detailed, exhaustive and to the point. It is different to the other RAC books available in the market and also this book is platform independent. I am very impressed with this one because it is unique and the style of writing is great, not to mention the depth and clarity of the chapters.

I would like to agree with the other person who has commented that we need lot of attention and concentration to read this book. If you have a RAC database, nothing like it to try the example demonstrations provided in the book.

Not everyone will be fortunate to have a 4 node RAC to test the possible cache fusion scenarios explained in this book. But the author has prepared a very effective demonstration to reveal the internal operations of the cache fusion. A lot of topics like internal of resource mastering/remastering, two pass recovery and past images are dealt to the core. Another unique in the book is a discussion on extended RAC (most commonly known as stretch clusters or geo clusters) and discussions on Application development for RAC.

Overall, it is an excellent text on RAC and worth for your investment on Time and money. There are so less books with good quality and content. It is worth the wait and I hope you won't be disappointed.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First time about Oracle RAC in so deep & complete way...., January 23, 2007

By	Lukasz Feldman (Warszawa, Poland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Absolutely fantastic! But do not be misled by the "handbook" term. It is not just the handbook with list of commands, couple of scripts or syntax. It goes more deeply in to the internals of the RAC infrastructure. For example Cache Fusion and Global Resources Directory have dedicated chapters. In my private opinion currently there is no other source of knowledge about RAC technology which covers it in so deep & complete way. As author has mentioned in the introduction this book seems to provide solid background and fundamentals of RAC, which can be a baseline for every RAC DBA. After book lecture, DBA can use received theory to dig into the technology and understand it in practical manner.
If I can do something to improve it I would prefer to have more details about CRS troubleshooting. This technology is quite new and still there is no good review point on what to do when something will go wrong with it.