Oracle High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Services: Explore RAC, Data Guard, and Cloud Technology

Work with Oracle database’s high-availability and disaster-management technologies. This book covers all the Oracle high-availability technologies in one place and also discusses how you configure them in engineered systems and cloud services.

You will see that when you say your database is healthy, it is not limited to whether the database is performing well on day-to-day operations; rather it should also be robust and free from disasters. As a result, your database will be capable of handling unforeseen incidents and recovering from disaster with very minimal or zero downtime. Oracle High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Services explores all the high-availability features of Oracle database, how to configure them, and best practices.

After you have read this book you will have mastered database high-availability concepts such as RAC, Data Guard, OEM 13c, and engineered systems (Oracle Exadata x6/x7 and Oracle Database Appliance). 

What You Will Learn

• Master the best practices and features of Exadata and ODA
  
• Implement and monitor high availability with OEM 13c
  
• Clone databases using various methods in Oracle 12c R2
  
• Work with the Oracle sharding features of Oracle 12c R2
  

Who This Book Is For

Oracle database administrators

Nassyam Basha is a technology expert with 11 years of Oracle Database experience. He holds a master’s degree in computer science. In 2014 he became an Oracle Database 11g Certified Master. Nassyam was honored with the title of Oracle ACE Director in 2015 based on his extraordinary contributions to the Oracle community. He was the second Oracle ACE Director in India in the area of database management. He is board member of the Oracle RACSIG team. He actively participates in Oracle-related forums, such as OTN, Oracle Lists (with the status of Super Hero), and Oracle Support (with the title of Guru), and acts as an OTN moderator. He has deep knowledge in the business fields of finance, retail, health, manufacturing, and consulting.

KM Krishna Kumar is a Database Administrator. He holds master's degree in Business administration from Anna University. He started working with oracle technologies from 2004 as DBA and worked with Oracle Corporation for 5+ years. He had involved in Beta testing of Database upgrade and written knowledge articles. He is an Oracle 11g and 12c certified professional and having good knowledge in Oracle technologies such as Installation, patching, DB upgrade using various methods, Data Guard, RMAN, RAC. He has delivered presentations to customers through various channels. He actively participates in Oracle-related forums such as OTN communities.

Bal Sharma is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) with 14 years of experience across various industries like Telecom, Healthcare, Financial Services and Insurance; played various roles like Database Manager and Technical lead DBA, Content Architect. He holds several certification across Oracle 10g/11g/12c and Certified in RAC and Oracle Exadata. In his recent role he has been advising customers on adoption of Hybrid Cloud platforms, primarily focusing on database technologies like High Availability and Engineered Systems. He has been in setting up a Database strategies for the largest Banks and Telco’s in India. He has lead various complex implementations at top banks and Talco’s in India. Bal is an avid technologist and believes customer satisfaction is of prime importance, his work across customers like State Bank of India, HDFC, Idea Cellular and Vodafone is a testimonial for the same. Besides this, Bal enjoys cooking for friends and family.

Konstantin Kerekovski is an Oracle Professional with over 6 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry. Konstantin Kerekovski is a member of the Independent Oracle User Group, Suncoast. Oracle User Group and the New York Oracle User Group.. Konstantin Kerekovski has worked as a Senior and Lead Database Administrator with Production Support duties in the Financial Services Industry. Konstantin Kerekovski is a speaker at IOUG Collaborate 2017 as well as SOUG and NYOUG meetings.  Konstantin is an expert at oracle Real Application Cluster Technologies, ASM, Goldengate and Oracle 11g and 12c.