Oracle RAC or Real Application Clusters is a grid computing solution that allows multiple nodes (servers) in a clustered system to mount and open a single database that resides on shared disk storage. Should a single system (node) fail, the database service will still be available on the remaining nodes. Oracle RAC is an integral part of the Oracle database setup. You have one database with multiple users accessing it, in real time. This book will enable DBAs to get their finger on the pulse of the Oracle 11g RAC environment quickly and easily. This book will cover all areas of the Oracle RAC...

One of the biggest challenges that IT departments currently face is how to migrate their non-Oracle databases to Oracle platform with limited budget, staff, and time constraints. In order to meet these needs, Oracle originally developed an excellent tool called the Oracle Migration Workbench (OMWB). As the latest and greatest enhancement to migration software, Oracle has provided the new version of migration tools along with a full development environment with the SQL Developer software with Oracle 10g and 11g database releases as the method of choice to accomplish these daunting tasks. This...

Experienced database professionals who work on Oracle database systems often have to solve difficult issues for Oracle performance and hang analysis. Due to the need to perform these critical tasks and lack of support from existing Oracle documentation, Oracle professionals will benefit from learning how to leverage the power of the hidden and undocumented tools within Oracle such as the oradebug utility. Using these poorly or little known tools within Oracle, readers will be able to quickly diagnose problems and perform root cause analysis of such issues as ORA-0600 database errors and...

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