Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook

Overview

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

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

Biographical note

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.

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Learn to Implement Oracle Real Application Clusters Technology from the Ground Up

Maximize database availability, scalability, and efficiency using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the in-depth information contained in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook explains RAC concepts, administration, tuning, and troubleshooting. Inside, you'll learn how to prepare and create Oracle RAC databases and servers, and automate administrative tasks. You'll also get full coverage of cutting-edge Oracle RAC diagnostic tools, backup and recovery procedures, performance tweaks, and custom application design strategies.
Install, configure, and administer Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters
Use Automatic Storage Management and manage the disk groups
Administer Oracle RAC databases and instances, and manage the Services voting disk
Implement workload management, intelligent load balancing, and Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
Execute RAC backup and recovery operations
Analyze and tune performance using AWR and AWR reports
Understand the internals of lock and resource management in RAC
Troubleshoot Oracle RAC databases with LMON traces, LMD traces, and alert logs
Design and debug applications that run on Oracle Real Application Clusters