Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook

by K. Gopalakrishnan, Vijay Lunawat

Overview

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071465090
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/22/2006
Series:	Oracle Press
Pages:	421
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

K Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) is a senior principal consultant with the Advanced Technology Services group at Oracle Corporation, specializing exclusively in performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery. He is a recognized expert in Oracle RAC and Database Internals and has used his extensive expertise in solving many vexing performance issues all across the world for telecom giants, banks, financial institutions, and universities. Gopal has more than a decade of Oracle expertise backed by an engineering degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Madras, India.

Gopal has previously co-authored an award-winning Oracle Press book, Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning. He was awarded an Editor's Choice award for Oracle Author of the Year by Oracle Magazine in 2005. Gopal was also chosen as an Oracle ACE by Oracle Technology Network (http://oracle.com/technology/index.html) in 2006.

Table of Contents

Part I: High Availability Architecture and Clusters

Chapter 1: Introduction to High Availability and Scalability

Chapter 2: Clustering Basics and History

Chapter 3: RAC Architecture
Part II: Installation, Configuration, and Storage

Chapter 4: RAC Preinstallation

Chapter 5: RAC Installation

Chapter 6: Automatic Storage Management
Part III: RAC Administration and Management

Chapter 7: RAC Basic Administration

Chapter 8: RAC Advanced Administration

Chapter 9: RAC Backup and Recovery

Chapter 10: RAC Performance Management
Part IV: Advanced Concepts in RAC

Chapter 11: Global Resource Directory

Chapter 12: A Closer Look at Cache Fusion

Chapter 13: Workload and Connection Management

Chapter 14: RAC Troubleshooting
Part V: Deploying RAC

Chapter 15: RAC Extensions

Chapter 16: Developing Applications for RAC
APPENDIX A: RAC REFERENCE
APPENDIX B: ADDING AND REMOVING CLUSTER NODES
APPENDIX C: REFERENCES
INDEX