RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Oracle)
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Useful for Oracle 10g and Above, with Carefully Constructed, Easily Followed Solutions
About six months ago I read the book "Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup and Recovery". While I enjoyed reading that book, I found that the book was difficult to use when practicing various backup, recovery, and cloning procedures which were outlined in the book. The reward for flipping through what must have been 50 to 100 pages in order to find everything needed for a practice procedure seemed to be the appearance of unexplained ORA errors, but maybe it was just my inability to follow the directions. In a panic database down situation, should it occur, the "Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup and Recovery" book will remain on the shelf. So, I started looking for a different resource.I initially discounted the "RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g" book as irrelevant primarily as I currently use Oracle 10g R2 in production, and did not wish to be confused by a book using 11g specific RMAN syntax without acknowledging that a slightly different syntax is required for Oracle...
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Great Book - Like Recipe Format
I had a choice between the Oracle Press book, "Oracle DB 10g Backup & Recovery" (called 'the other book') and this book. I sat down and scanned both books side by side. I chose this book even though it was 11g and I was using 10g. The book pretty clearly dilineates between 10 and 11 differences. It also shows both UNIX and Windows steps, which was nice since I was new to Oracle on Windows.There is a very good Windows overview section.The index is great. That is a pet peeve of mine. So many books don't even have entries in their index for some letters of the alphabet. This index is very complete.The other book has a few problems in my opinion. (1) it wastes pages on the same rman syntax diagrams that the manuals have (which are not very easy to follow anyway); (2) it lists the RC tables (again - in the manual); (3) philosophically, I object to Oracle publishing and selling books that shouldn't be necessary if their manuals were easier to read (4) I...
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Must have RMAN book!
If you are an Oracle DBA, this book will give you examples and solutions to RMAN problems that you won't find anywhere else, including Oracle's documentation. RMAN recipes gives DBAs specific examples on how to solve problems and then goes into detail on how and why the database works like it does.
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Product Description
It’s sometimes said that the true job of an Oracle database administrator can be summed up in one, essential skill: to be able to recover your database.
There’s much wisdom in that statement. Of all the things you are responsible for as a database administrator, nothing is more important than the data itself. Like it or not, the fearsome responsibility of protecting your organization's most critical data falls squarely upon your shoulders:
- Lose that data and your company could fail.
- Lose that data and you could be out of a job.
Scared? You should be. But there's help. You are not alone. Oracle experts Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda have come together in this book to show you the power of Recovery Manager, or RMAN, which is Oracle's backup and recovery tool of choice. RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g helps you take advantage of all that RMAN has to offer by providing easy-to-understand solutions to business-critical backup and recovery operations. This handy guide:
- Demystifies the steps required to protect your business data
- Provides ready-made and step-by-step solutions to simple and complex backup, restore, and recovery operations
- Is task-oriented, making it easy for you to find the solution to pressing backup and recovery problems
- Respects your time by providing example-based solutions, not endless reading material
When the pressure’s on, you don't have time for long discussions of theory. This book gets right to the point with quick and easy-to-read, step-by-step solutions that can help you backup and recover your data with confidence.
What you’ll learn
Oracle Database experts Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda show you how to
- Reliably back up and recover your database using Oracle's Recovery Manager
- Utilize new Oracle Database 11g features such as the Data Recovery Advisor
- Let Oracle Database manage your backup files via the Flash Recovery Area
- Automate backup and recovery tasks by writing scripts
- Troubleshoot RMAN problems and optimize RMAN performance
- Interface with a Media Management Layer to manage your backup tape library
- Recover from the loss of a control file, loss of an online redo log, and other (hopefully!) unusual situations
Who this book is for
Oracle database administrators responsible for database backup and recovery operations.
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A Comprehensive RMAN Book which will Remain on the Shelf in an Emergency