Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters: Oracle 10g Grid Computing with Rac

by Ranko Mosic, Madhu Tumma, Mike Ault

Revealing the secrets for quickly implementing and tuning Oracle RAC database systems, this book covers all areas of Oracle Real Application Clusters including Oracle10g new features. Oracle DBAs who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974435546
• ISBN13: 9780974435541
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Rampant Techpress
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Very general coverage of material

You will need expert's knowledge in UNIX, Linux and Blade Servers to attempt this material. I found the book very useful for shops that have the newer Hardware technology. This book will show you how to implement the new Oracle 10g GRID technology coupled with RAC on blade servers and what is involved in the configuration process. I highly recommend only professional Database Administrators with new hardware & server(s) with more than 4gigs of memory for this book material. This is definitely not for a beginner. Please go here if you want DBA material for passing your Oracle Certification Oracle 10g Database Administrator: Implementation and Administration Oracle 10g Database Administrator II: Backup/Recovery and Network Administration My favorite book in my collect besides the Bible is Oracle 9i Performance & Tuning by Course.com (over 1,000 pages and covered more information than any other Oracle book I have ever read).

Really good technical details

I found that Oracle RAC is very complex and I was very happy to find the amount of technical details in this book. It guided me stepwise through a complicated RAC installation and the online scripts were most helpful to me. This is a book I recommend to all who are getting started with RAC and Grid tech.

Got them all - This is the one I use.

I have worked with RAC for 2 years and this book has addressed some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. This book is first in a new series "Oracle In Focus" and will give O'Reilly a run for their money. I really like this book and although I did have some critiques I felt that I could not resist. However, RAC is a very sophisticated Product and the authors have done a splendid job in bringing all of the material under one cover. This book does a great job laying out the differences between RAC and OPS. It also covers the architecture and implementation of RAC for all major platforms including Veritas DBE/AC. The architecture discussion covers areas such as I/O Fencing, SCSI3 Persistent Reservations, and Quorum Disks in Chapter 3. This is important information which sets a basis for the next chapter. In Chapter 4 RAC technical Architecture is thoroughly reviewed after a brief overview of the OPS evolution. Chapter 5 is a brief chapter that covers Hardware and RAC and explains the Implementation of RAC from a hardware perspective. I liked the approach taken by the authors because they do a good job tying in CFS or RAW with the disk subsystem. Chapter 6 is a 100 page chapter that covers RAC Install and configuration for almost every platform. It is high level but covers the subject matter well. It is very current in relation to where Oracle is with Patch sets and such. I had only wished they covered the Linux install better and covered the watchdog/hang check timer kernel transition. Chapter 7 is dedicated to the RAC internals and is good at condensing the internals that is covered in the Oracle RAC concepts guide. It is in Chapter 8 that the authors cover Threads but they stop short of explaining of how threads are used to generate SCN's and the role they play in recovery and Data Guard gap resolution. Chapter 10 covers TAF (Transparent Application Failover) connectivity to RAC. Although this chapter covers the subject matter okay it is weak in when they cover load balancing on the nodes. The remaining chapters are pretty good after skimming over them. I will update my review after finishing the book. Don't get me wrong by my critiques. I like this book very much. This book is a must for anyone who is interested in RAC.

Quite good

Oracle RAC and Grid is very complicated and I have purchased every Oracle book on the subject with this one being the clear winner. The problem with Grid is that every installation is completely different and it is very hard to find a book that give operating system and disk specific configuration tips. This is a huge book and not everything will apply to you but the authors have done an excellent job in explaining how to succeed with clustered technology.

really really good

This is cledarly the best book on Oracle 10g grid and clusters. I have the others, and this is the only one that goes into enough depth to be useful and the authors have real experience using Oracle grid computing. I also like the downloadable scripts.