Oracle Data Guard

Standby Database Failover Handbook

This small book is an indispensable guide for using Oracle for a disaster recovery strategy. Covering all areas of disaster recovery, standby database and automatic Oracle failover, this book explains the use of Oracle10g Data Guard solution provides a comprehensive Solution for disaster recovery. This book covers all aspects of Oracle Data Guard in detail and provides an overview of the latest Data Guard features in Oracle10g.

Written by a working Oracle DBA, this text covers the concepts and the architecture of standby databases and provides a detailed description of the implementation and management of data guard. Expert tips are revealed for success in configuration and first-time implementation of Data Guard. Advance topics such as "Using RMAN to create Data Guard Configuration" and "Data Guard Broker" have been discussed in detail to assist production DBAs managing multiple databases.

Key Features

• Learn secrets for Data Guard implementation standby and failover
  
• Understand the Oracle10g Data Guard architecture
  
• Ensure success with a first-time failover database implementation
  
• See how to use Recovery Manager with Data Guard
  
• Learn the expert troubleshooting Tips and Techniques
  
• Get working scripts to perform Data Guard administration and monitoring.

About the Author
Bipul Kumar is a Senior Application Engineer for a Telecommunications company in St. Albans Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. His responsibilities include Oracle Database administration, Performance tuning, Recovery, and application development. He has more than six years of experience in creating and managing Oracle Databases of varying sizes, primarily on UNIX operating systems.

Mr. Kumar has a Masters degree in Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India and nearly nine years of experience in computing. In addition, he has acquired Oracle DBA certification for 7.3, 8.0, and 8i.