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Expert Oracle RAC 12c is a hands-on book helping you understand and implement Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), and to reduce the total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) of a RAC database. As a seasoned professional, you are probably aware of the importance of understanding the technical details behind the RAC stack. This book provides deep understanding of RAC concepts and implementation details that you can apply toward your day-to-day operational practices. You´ll be guided in troubleshooting and avoiding trouble in your installation. Successful RAC operation hinges upon a fast-performing network interconnect, and this book dedicates a chapter solely to that very important and easily overlooked topic.
All four authors are experienced RAC engineers with a wealth of hard-won experience encountering and surmounting the challenges of running a RAC environment that delivers on its promise. In Expert Oracle RAC 12c they provide you a framework in which to avoid repeating their hard-won lessons. Their goal is for you to manage your own RAC environment with ease and expertise.

Provides a deep conceptual understanding of RAC
Provides best practices to implement RAC properly and match application workload
Enables readers to troubleshoot RAC with ease

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Overview of Oracle RAC
Clusterware Management and Troubleshooting
RAC Operational Practices
RAC New Features
Storage and ASM Practices
Application Design Issues
Managing and Optimizing a Complex RAC Environment
Backup and Recovery in RAC
Network Practices in RAC
RAC Database Optimization
Locks and Deadlocks
Parallel Query in RAC
Clusterware and Database Upgrades
Oracle RAC One Node

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Riyaj Shamsudeen is an industry-recognized RAC expert and performance tuning specialist with 19+ years of experience in implementing, using, and tuning RAC and Oracle products. He is an Oracle ACE Director and proud member of the OakTable network. Riyaj has co-authored many books about Oracle Database. He is an active blogger (at http://orainternals.wordpress.com) and frequent international speaker in major conferences such as UKOUG, HOTSOS, Open World, and RMOUG.

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