Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook (Osborne Oracle Press) | 
 enlarge | Author: K Gopalakrishnan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
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Pages: 421
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 007146509X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780071465090
ASIN: 007146509X
Publication Date: November 22, 2006
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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
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 Strong on Procedural Advice November 24, 2008
This is a good book, in that it goes one step deeper into the realm of understanding the reasons behind the many steps necessary to setup a RAC environment for Oracle. It includes discussions of the use of raw devices and how they should be applied, as well as their advantages. What it doesn't really get into much are problem determination issues, and future directions for the product. Perhaps a followup version of this book or some other book will address these topics.
 Stopped reading at page 50 - atrocious editing! October 15, 2008
I was going to give it 1-star but I am 99% sure that is probably very unfair to the author. Also, given that there are 20 5-star reviews it is unlikely to deserve less than 3-stars. I couldn't read it but given that I write technical books, and that I write Oracle books, my guess is that this book was very poorly edited. Even the grammer and is completely non-sensical in places so perhaps it was not edited at all.
 good book October 11, 2008
its good book for the beginner's rac dbas, not too much for advanced level, of course one book can not cover all the topics.
Well written and thorough. Readable beyond its technical complexities. July 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I borrowed a copy of the book from my coworker. It's probably one of the few technical books I actually enjoyed reading. Besides providing a good technical foundation to RAC, it also includes business and historical perspectives to High Availability and Redundancy. Gives you the arsenal to understand CRS, ASM, and GES (some of the most difficult aspects of Oracle Clustering), and provides you with information on proper RAC performance tuning. I bought the book from Amazon to read AGAIN because I actually enjoyed reading it the first time. I learned a lot from this book.
Gopalakrishnan does it again.. July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
RAC Handbook is an excellent RAC book for new and experienced DBAs. The book is not one of the several 600 page RAC books that contain pages of not-so valuable information. The RAC Handbook is around 400 pages and it is packed with excellent detail on how to install RAC and troubleshoot common performance issues. The author of this book, K Gopalakrishnan is also the author of "Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guilde to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning" by Oracle Press. This book won an Oracle award and it one of the best performance tuning books. The RAC Handbook features an excellent chapter on Cache Fusion and several easy to understand examples of how blocks are transferred amongst multiple nodes. The RAC Handbook also has a decent chapter on ASM which could have been a little longer and could have gone into more detail. The chapter on RAC installation will walk you though using the cluster verify utilities which can and will alleviate many headaches that can be experienced during a RAC installation. This book is a great read for anyone that wants to build their RAC skills. Gopalakrishnan is an excellent author and I trust his research.
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