Oracle Press Series

Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook

by Larry Carpenter, Joseph Meeks, Charles Kim, Bill Burke, Sonya Carothers, Joydip Kundu, Michael Smith, and Nitin Vengurlekar

Published 1 January 2009

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Master Oracle Data Guard 11g

Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices for configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You will get full details on implementing deployment architectures to address requirements that extend beyond disaster recovery. This invaluable resource also includes a complete set of monitoring scripts available for download.

Develop a disaster recovery plan for your Oracle database to meet your organization's requirements
Configure and deploy Oracle Data Guard for your environment
Tune and troubleshoot your physical and logical standby databases
Implement the Oracle Data Guard Broker management framework
Integrate with Oracle Grid Control
Monitor your Oracle Data Guard environment
Enable read-only services and disaster recovery with Oracle Active Data Guard
Configure seamless database and application failover
Minimize planned downtime using Oracle Data Guard switchover
Handle backup and recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager

Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-The-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide

by Nitin Vengurlekar, Murali Vallath, and Rich Long

Published 16 December 2007

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Build and manage a scalable storage infrastructure with Oracle Automatic Storage Management

Streamline data management and provisioning using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and the detailed information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press resource. Written by a team of database experts, Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide explains how to build and maintain a dynamic, highly available Oracle database storage environment. Inside, you'll learn how to configure storage for Oracle ASM, build disk groups, use data striping and mirroring, and optimize performance. You'll also learn how to ensure consistency across server and storage platforms, maximize data redundancy, and administer Oracle ASM from the command line.

Manage Oracle ASM Instances and configure Oracle RDBMS instances to leverage Oracle ASM
Define, discover, and manage disk storage under Oracle ASM Create external, normal-redundancy, and high-redundancy disk groupsAdd and remove Oracle ASM storage without affecting RDMS instance availabilityLearn how Oracle ASM provides even I/O distribution Work with Oracle ASM directories, files, templates, and aliasesImprove storage performance and integrity using the ASMLIB APISimplify system administration with the Oracle ASM command line interfaceUnderstand key internal Oracle ASM structures and algorithms