Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 680 pages
- Published by: Rampant Techpress August 1, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0974435546
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0974435541
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 3.2 pounds
Book Description
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 are charged with configuring and implementing a RAC clusters database will benefit from this complete guide to the installation as well as configuration and design of Oracle Real Application Clusters. Information is supplied on expert internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID with RAC, the internal concurrency, resource coordination, and the locking mechanism within RAC. Also explained are Transparent Application Failover (TAF) and monitoring and tuning Oracle10g RAC applications.
About The Author
Mike Ault is a senior technical management consultant with TUSC and holds five Oracle master certificates. He is the author of 14 Oracle-related books, including
Oracle 9i RAC and
Oracle DBA Exam Cram. He lives in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Madhu Tumma has been a
software developer, IT manager, database administrator, and technical consultant and has worked on a wide variety of projects and environments, including mainframe, client-server, eBusiness, and managed services. He has consulted a variety of clients on database clusters, business continuity, and high availability solutions. He is a frequent speaker at Oracle World and IOUG, where he has presented many technical papers and is the author of
Oracle 9i RAC. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Reader Reviews
This book is a theory book and little more than a recapitulation of the Oracle documentation and HOWTO documents provided on metalink. There are some helpful sections on RAC performance and tuning which add some value but there is simply too much filler, including the first five chapters, that contains little more than the ABCs of Oracle and fundamental OS principles. There are a number of exciting and provocative areas for RAC research which are occurring in SUN, HP, and LINUX laboratories, focused on scalability with topspin infiniband and scaling the cluster above 4 nodes. Some of this research is coming into view with the new TCP-H numbers. Little mention of this in the text. How to scale RAC clusters by expanding the number of interconnects is not addresses or quantitized. Use of network storage and NetApps with NFS over IP or with iSCSI is not addressed. Although it is mentioned that Oracle packages its own clusterware and file sharing tools, there is no in-depth analysis of why other tools such as SunCluster, Veritas Storage Foundation suite or RehHat clustered file system might not have superior methods for data protection, performance, or usability. None of the problem areas for installation or configuration are addressed( there are many problem areas ) beyond the simple textbook installation. No mention of the new Opteron systems using Red Hat 3, 64 bit operating systems with 64 bit versions of Oracle 10g are explored. This is an important new area which SUN, HP and other vendors are providing cost/performance effective, scalable architectures when married with infiniband. In all fairness to Mr Ault, RAC is a complex animal with adjunct 3rd party hardware and software components which are changing all the time and keeping up with the new technologies is daunting. Still, the author adds no substantial value to those who want to go beyond simple hand-waving into implementation. This is where the the text falls down.
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