In times like these the basic engineering concepts and practices behind bundled products seem to be fading away, but for those hard skilled professionals, the clock of innovation is always ticking. New product features help IT professionals make more in less time, but when it come to High Availability in Oracle Database environments you have to give a step back and have a bird’s eye view before you get your hands “dirty”.
The book that came to my hands before the summer, called “Oracle Database 11g Release 2 High Availability: Maximize Your Availability with Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Data Guard” is a perfect example of the kind of book busy people need these days. Broad in terms of technologies covered, but focused in terms of what do we need to accomplish with these technologies.
Although the OVM and OEM chapters are a bit dated after the recent announcements of OVM 3.0 and OEM 12c, the rest of the book is a great hands-on experience. It covers the three basic technologies in HA: ASM, RAC and Data Guard. How-To Workshops, with the assurance that these are proven and tested by the MAA Group inside Oracle Corp.
If you’re a technical architect, a DBA or an IT Manager and you own Oracle Databases in your IT environment, you should get this book and actually go through the best practices and make sure your organization implements them.
LMC
