RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g : A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

by Darl Kuhn, Sam R. Alapati, Arup Nanda

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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 organizations 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 theres 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 Oracles 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 dont 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 Oracles 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 is this book for?

Oracle database administrators responsible for database backup and recovery operations.

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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

Very useful RMAN Book, 2008-04-30
I have had this book just over a month and have found the book quite useful. I have yet to review the entire book but have been picking it and reading it from time to time and learning new things or better ways of doing tasks in RMAN.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

Wonderful Learning Tool & Continuous Reference, 2008-04-23
I just took a graduate level course on RMAN at Regis University which was taught by one of the authors (Darl Kuhn). I am very new to Oracle and this book serves several purposes:
--Introduction to RMAN for those who have never used it
--Learning through hands-on case scenarios and how to utilize them (for almost ANY situation)
--A continuous reference for experienced DBAs
--Touches on a few topics external to basic RMAN, such as the restoration of online redo logs, running RMAN on Windows, the data recovery adviser, and utilizing RMAN through the enterprise manager.

I sell most of my text books after I'm done with the class, this one I will keep.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Practical Version, 2008-04-14
This is an excellent book that I ever had. This book provides us what we need to do in a step by step method for all imaginable scenarios. This may look repetitive but it provides the complete solution in that fashion rather making us to scrape through different chapters and leaving us in doubt on what to do. If some one is looking for rman internal algorithms, they can search elsewhere. But if they are trying to have a book that could provide easy, quick and straight forward solutions in a crisis, this is the one they might need. This really helped me to troubleshoot and resolve the issues on different occassions.RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Oracle)
-Nehru Kaja.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

job enhancer, 2008-04-05
I've referred to this book numerous times; it's excellent. In fact, I can barely get it back from one of my peers. In essence ... you're faced with a specific problem and this books provides an excellent guideline for tailoring a solution to your situation. A must buy!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Great and very useful, 2008-03-20
I just finished reading this book. I must admit that I like technical books that have examples you can test and see the results yourself. The book has a lot information and especially rman new features with Oracle 11g. The best way to take advantage of this book is to have a test server on hand to try RMAN problems in the book. I recommend this book. It will enhance your knowledge of rman in Oracle 11g.
I give 5 stars.

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