Oracle Real Application Clusters

By Michael J Fry, Jeffrey D Camm, Jeffrey W Ohlmann, et al.

Clustered configuration first hit the scene nearly 20 years ago when Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VaxCluster. Until now, the topic of Real Application Clusters (RAC) implementation had never been fully explored. For the first time, Murali Vallath dissects RAC mysteries in his book Oracle Real Application Clusters to enlighten and educate readers on the internals of RAC operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes and the fast reconfiguration of RAC. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles of RAC that is part of the Oracle9i release of Oracle's RDBMS product. It is divided into three main parts: application/database design, development and maintenance life cycles. Compared to its predecessor OPS, the architecture behind RAC implementation have changed significantly. Vallath discusses Oracle9i features in a RAC implementation with respect to usage and design considerations, as well as those parameters that are and are not applicable. Areas covered include partitioning, indexes, tablespace management, transaction management, backup and recovery principles. Performance tuning with examples, troubleshooting and problem solving scenarios are covered in detail, as well as discussions on the migration process from a single instance database to RAC and migration from an OPS implementation to RAC. Oracle Real Application Clusters takes readers through a logical flow from RAC concepts to operations, covering each facet with a fine-tooth comb. Vallath's skilled writing style makes each chapter entertaining and informative as only a true RAC connoisseur can provide. New and experienced users of RAC, as well as those seeking to expand their knowledge of this dynamic technology, will find this book to be a necessity for both home and office reference libraries. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555582885
• ISBN13: 9781555582883
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Digital Press
• Length: 781 Pages
• Weight: 2.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This book is really good, provides a complete coverage on RAC. The author has an excellent grasp of the subject and explains every detail in an easy to understand manner. This is the best book I have found on the subject.I am enjoying every bit of detail, and these scripts and explanations are saving us through our implementation.

Good Book

This is an excellent book, covers RAC north south east and west. Internals are covered in great detail. I have not found any other book that has such details. The real good thing about this book is that the author provides examples with dumps and explains them so you understand and don't have to take the author for granted. You can see and understand from the examples.TAF is covered in great detail. From the mechanics to...

Outstanding Book on RAC

This is a complete reference that provides 100% business value to professionals using or moving to RAC. We have already used many of his scripts over the last two weeks in our test environment and has helped us move forward considerably. His internals chapter is excellent. Good work Murali. I highly recommend this book

Excellent Book!

This book has depth; the contents are full of meat. In these pages is something for everyone. Murali discusses RAC starting with the single instance and covers clustering, it covers internals to a great detail. Installation and Performance tuning chapters are no exception. Author focus has been Oracle while touching on Linux and Windows installation. The book presents the topic in a clear and concise fashion.

Excellent book covering the Internals of RAC

The book covers a great detail of Oracle technology. Having worked with RAC since its first release. I think the author has taken great efforts to start with the basic concepts and drive from the basic Oracle concepts into the clustering technology to make it a complete comprehensive book. I wish I had this book when I first started into RAC, don't get me wrong even after 3 years of working with RAC I find this book very...