Oracle Database 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and Data Guard (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook

Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration

Oracle

Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters

Format: Hardcover
Author: Mike Ault
ReleaseDate: 01 May, 2004
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Rating:

Worked for me!
I felt that it was a good book and overall I have little ill to say about it. I used this book to deploy Oracle 10g RAC on Linux and UNIX. The examples are well written and do a good job of reinforcing what you read in the chapter. You read a little then do an example, then read some more, then add to the example and so on. You don't need any Administrative experience to use this book just a decent understanding of database design. The only criticism I could offer is that the editor should have used arrows when content is being continued on a new line for reasons of page space so that readers will know and understand (beginners can have trouble with this). It's a good book for learning Oracle 10g as a whole from the ground up and for this reason it's worth the money. It's not an overnight crash course (if that is what you are looking for).

Really good technical details
It guided me stepwise through a complicated RAC installation and the online scripts were most helpful to me. I found that Oracle RAC is very complex and I was very happy to find the amount of technical details in this book. 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.
This book is first in a new series "Oracle In Focus" and will give O'Reilly a run for their money. I have worked with RAC for 2 years and this book has addressed some of the missing pieces of the puzzle.

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.
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