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Summary: not good grid and rac topics
Review: I did not find the clusters information to be as deep as the Madhu Tumma book by far.
I liked the Tumma book far better in my opinion.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I felt the book was well done. The chapters proceeded in logical order and presentation was excellent. Good in-depth coverage on RAC.
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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: I found this book very helpful and I love this one. Murali has done an excellent work in providing all the RAC related information starting with the Oracle concepts before moving to the clustering part. The hardware concepts chapter covers in great details the various components that play an important role when configuring RAC clusters, interconnects, storage systems etc, The architecture and transaction management chapters have such a good wealth of information that is helpful in understanding the behavior of RAC, while I have not found an immediate need for these internals, it makes you understand what happens behind the scene which I think will help when you encounter any problems or when you start trouble shooting your RAC environment. TAF and performance tuning chapters are also very well discussed. The author ends with providing some helping hints for problem diagnostics. I recommend this book to anyone starting to use or currently using RAC.
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Summary: Excellent comprehensive book!
Review: The first book that explains the why, when and how part of RAC. I have understood and enjoyed every piece of this book, great reading, great coverage and very well explained content. The author has explained with great amount of detail, covering internals of RAC architecture. All chapters from basic Oracle fundamentals to performance tuning and high availability features are explained in a clear manner Excellent buy. I will recommend this to anyone currently working or planning to use RAC.
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Summary: Excellent comprehensive book!
Review: The first book that explains the why, when and how part of RAC. I have understood and enjoyed every piece of this book, great reading, great coverage and very well explained content. The author has explained with great amount of detail, covering internals of RAC architecture. All chapters from basic Oracle fundamentals to performance tuning and high availability features are explained in a clear manner Excellent buy. I will recommend this to anyone currently working or planning to use RAC.
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Summary: Excellent book on Oracle9i RAC and Oracle10g new features
Review: This book is a great master piece from Mr. Murali Vallath. Mr. Murali Vallath has put in his extensive knowledge and rich experience on Oracle in a simple and lucid style in this book. This book not only covers the Oracle9i RAC concepts but also some of the other topics like Oracle9i internals, Oracle 10g new features etc. I have really gained lot of knowledge and expretise by going through this book. This book is almost flawless and should serve as an excellent reference for the Oracle Users community. Excellent work Mr. Murali Vallath!!! Keep it up!!! Hope to see more in the near and farther future!!!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is really good, provides a complete coverage on RAC. The author has an excellent grasp of the subject and explains every detail in an easy to understand manner. This is the best book I have found on the subject. I am enjoying every bit of detail, and these scripts and explanations are saving us through our implementation.
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Summary: better to read oracle doc on RAC
Review: This book is really not special. Why the author still try to cover so many topics that are not really related to RAC? I'm thinking that oracle documentation is better to read, beside it's free.
If you have already familiar with oracle architecture, and have some exposure to RAC env, you will feel dissatisfied buying this book.
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Summary: Is Gudt!
Review: This is amazing book, possible the best book ever written. Text provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology, and principles of RAC that is part of the Oracle9i, 9iR2, and 10g release of Oracle's RDBMS product. For Oracle RAC users.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This is an excellent book, covers RAC north south east and west. Internals are covered in great detail. I have not found any other book that has such details. The real good thing about this book is that the author provides examples with dumps and explains them so you understand and don't have to take the author for granted. You can see and understand from the examples. TAF is covered in great detail. From the mechanics to using them inside Java code for complete transparent failover is covered with examples. I also liked the performance tuning chapters, the author has taken all angles into consideration while writing these 3 chapters. By providing extensive descriptions and a several scripts the author has impressed me. We at our company have used several of his scripts and found helpful. The support chapters are excellent.
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