ISBN 978-09916386-2-8 0-9916386-2-X Library of Congress Number: 2009926794 214 pages: Perfect Bind - 9.25x7.5  PD 510 Shelving: Database/Oracle Oracle In-Focus Series # 32

Oracle Grid & Real Application Clusters Oracle Grid Computing with RAC Steve Karam, Bryan Jones   Retail Price $27.95 /  £20.95 Only $19.95  (30% off)           Key Features   About the Authors Reader Comments Table of Contents   Index Errata         Get the RAC Pack - Half price! Six Pack RAC for $79.95 - A $168.00 value Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters $69.95 Personal Oracle RAC Clusters $27.95 Oracle on VMware $34.95 Oracle SQL Internals eBook $19.95 Oracle Space Management eBook $24.95 Oracle 10g DBA Reference Poster $8.95

Oracle Grid and RAC is the first-of-its-kind reference for Oracle Grid computing. Covering all areas of Oracle Grid computing, this book is indispensable for any Oracle DBA who is charged with configuring and implementing Oracle Grid with server blades. This text presents a complete guide to the installation, configuration and design of Oracle Grid and RAC. It supplies expert internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID, and exposes the internal configuration methods for server blades. The text also demonstrates the use of Oracle Grid using the Enterprise Manager Grid control utility.

* See working examples of Oracle Grid and RAC installation. * Learn to configure Oracle Grid using Enterprise Manager. * View the internals of shared disk technology, raw devices and RAID with Oracle Grid. * Understand the internal concurrency, resource coordination and locking for Oracle Grid systems. * Get examples of real-time server load balancing with Oracle Grid Controller. * Use working scripts to monitor and tune Oracle Grid and RAC.

About the Authors:

Steve Karam

Steve Karam is one of the few DBAs worldwide to achieve both the Oracle 10g Certified Master certification and the Oracle ACE designation, both of which he received before the age of 26.  As both a production DBA and an instructor, he has a proven track record in performance and troubleshooting on dozens of high profile Oracle systems including complex RAC environments.  Additionally, Steve has been developing against Oracle databases for over twelve years on a variety of platforms including C, C++, Java, PHP, and Application Express. Steve is also involved heavily in the Oracle community as the President of the Hampton Roads Oracle Users Group, Web Chair for the IOUG RAC SIG, and judge for the yearly Oracle Academy educational competition.

   

	Bryan Jones		Bryan Jones is an Oracle Certified Professional with 10+ years of hands on experience working with Oracle. Currently Bryan works full time as a Senior Lead Oracle DBA for a Top Level Federal Government Office.  He also assists Unisys DBAs and Federal Government DBAs with RDMBS performance tuning issues. Bryan has a Masters in Computer Science from Creighton University with a BS in Computer Science from Westminster College. He has been working with Oracle since 1997. He has extensive experience with Oracle versions 7, 8, 8i, 9i, and 10g. He has also been in charge of Database Servers that process $10 billion of transactions per year. Bryan  has most recently worked on an 11g Grid and RAC book: Oracle 11g Grid & Real Applications Clusters.

 

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Index Topics:

A ACMS   Acquisition Interrupt Active Session History ARBn ARCH asm_preferred_read_failure_groups ASMB atomic variables Automated Storage Management Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor Automatic Diagnostic Repository Automatic Memory Management Automatic Shared Memory Management Automatic Storage Management Automatic Workload Repository Availability B bigfile tablespace Block Arrival Interrupt Block Server Process block written redo Blocking Interrupt buffer cache C cache coherency Cache fusion cache_value CKPT cluster aware Cluster Ready Services cluster_interconnect Clusters Clusterware clusterware daemons Compute Grid consistent read CQJ0 CRS crs_profile crs_register crs_start crs_stat  crs_stop crs_unregiste current block D Data Block Addresses Data Grid Data Guard0 database buffer cache Database Configuration Assistant Datafile Verification Datapump DB block ping   db_block_size   db_name          DBRM  DBVERIFY        DBWn   DBWR  demilitarized zone Department Grid            DIA0     DIAG    diagnostic_dest      Dictionary cache           Dictionary Cache Locks Direct NFS        dirty block dirty buffer Distributed Share Model       Downtime Cost-per-Minute E EMNC     Enqueues Enterprise Grid      Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant Event Manager      exclusive exp          expdp     EXTERNAL REDUNDANCY External Tables      F fabric switch           Failure    fault tolerant FBDA fibre channel protocol          file_mapping          filesystemio_options            FMON     free buffer

G Gigabit Ethernet Global Cache Service Global Enqueue Service       Global Enqueue Service Daemon Global Resource Directory Global Services Daemon GMON    Grid Architecture Grid Computing Grid Management Entity       GTX0-J gv$instance gv$session gv$session_wait gv$sql_plan gv$sqlarea H Host Bus Adapters I if_name   if_type     InfiniBand instance_name      Inter-Query Parallelism         Intra-Query Parallelism         J Jnnn       K KATE       L large_pool_size     latches LCK0 least-recently-used list         LGWR     Library cache         Library Cache locks             listdisks  Listener Control    listener.ora             LMD        LMON     LMS         LMSn      log_archive_dest  log_archive_dest_n           log_archive_duplex_dest logical units           M MARK      Massively Parallel Processing Maximum Availability Architecture Mean Time Between Failures Mean Time To Recovery memory bus           memory_target       MMAN     MMNL     MMON    N Network Configuration Assistant node_name null          O olsnodes        online redo log group      opatch    Open Grid Open Grid Forum Oracle Cluster Registry        Oracle Clusterware Oracle Notification Services Oracle Parallel Server    Oracle Universal Installer

P parallel architecture parallel execution parallelism             Parallelization        Partner Grid past image             pga_aggregate_target         pinned buffer        PMON     pointers  Program Global Area PSP0       Q QMN       query optimizer      R RAID       rawio interface RBAL Recovery Point Objective Recovery Time Objective Reliability Reliable Data Socket RMSn row exclusive row locks row share RSMS S Scalability Scavenging Grid Service Registration Serviceability         sga_max_size        sga_target share lock share row exclusive single system image smallfile tablespace               SMCO     SMON     srvctl       streams_pool_size                subnet     Symmetric Multi-Processors synchronization    System Change Number System Global Area T Table locks Top Cluster Events Top Remote Instance Transaction locks U udev rules User Datagram Protocol V v$archived_log     v$bh v$instance v$object_usage     v$sort_usage         v$sql_plan             v$sqlarea               Virtual IP Configuration        VKTM      Voting Disk W write list

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