Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9780071465090 ISBN: 007146509X Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 421 Publication Date: November 22, 2006 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Sales Rank: 34378 Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Product DescriptionLearn 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Well written and thorough. Readable beyond its technical complexities.
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Gopalakrishnan does it again..
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Best internals coverage yet for Oracle 10g RAC
By far one of my favorite books on RAC internals.
I especially like the section on Cache Fusion and how locking works with Oracle 10g RAC and OPS.
My only request is that it covered more details on command line utilities but other books cover that so not that big of a deal.
It really is the guru internals guide to RAC for consultants!
I have the other book by Gopal on Oracle 10g Wait tuning and that is a great tech reference as well.
Rating: - Must read for DBAs supporting RAC
I had the fortune to work with Gopal on a RAC troubleshooting project. While a book cannot replace the real person it is a good summary of his experiences learned over many customer engagements.
The book covers all aspects of RAC from the history lesson and installation overview, to locking and even extended RAC. My favorite chapters are 10 "RAC Performance Management" and 14 "RAC Troubleshooting". They should be mandatory reading for any DBA supporting RAC. Require your developers to read chapter ... Read More
Rating: - Deep on some topics
On some of the topics this book is excellent.Looks like this book focussed on topics those are not covered in other books or manuals.
I suggest first read some simple installation and administration manuals.
Later refer this book for specific information.Then you can take more from this book.
- Well written and thorough. Readable beyond its technical complexities.
- Deep on some topics
