Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook (Oracle Press): Undocumented Best Practices and Real-world Techniques

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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
  

Larry Carpenter is a distinguished product manager at Oracle USA and is a member of the Maximum Availability Architecture Product Management team in Server Technologies.

Joseph Meeks is a director of product management with Oracle's Database High Availability Group in Server Technologies.

Charles Kim, Oracle Certified DBA and OTN ACE, is the practice director at Database Technology Solutions.

Bill Burke is a consulting technical director, system performance, and architecture with Oracle USA.

Sonya Carothers is a senior Oracle database administrator at Fidelity National Information Services.

Joydip Kundu is the director of development for Data Guard Logical Standby and LogMiner at Oracle.

Michael Smith is principle member of technical staff in Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture team in Server Technologies.

Nitin Vengurlekar is the coauthor of Oracle Automatic Storage Management.

Nitin Vengurlekar, is the co-founder and CTO of Viscosity North America, a leader in virtualization, Oracle Engineered Systems, Private Database Cloud and RAC implementations. With more than 25 years of IT experience, including OS390 Systems Programming, Storage Administration, System and Database Administration, Nitin is a seasoned systems architect who has successfully assisted numerous customers in deploying highly available Oracle systems.Prior to joining Viscosity, Nitin worked for Oracle for more than 17 years, mostly in the Real Application Cluster (RAC) engineering group, with main emphasis on ASM and storage, and was a Database Cloud Architect/Evangelist in the Oracle’s Cloud Strategy Group. Nitin is a well-known Oracle technologist and speaker in the areas of Oracle Storage, high availability, Oracle RAC, and private database cloud. He is the author of Oracle Automatic Storage Management and the Data Guard Handbook (both from Oracle Press) and has written many papers on storage, database internals, database tuning, and served as a contributor to Oracle documentation as well as Oracle education material.