CHAPTER 1Architecting the Oracle Database Grid

As you have already discovered, or perhaps are about to discover, maintaining the Maximum Availability database is a tricky prospect. Hundreds of possible sources of downtime are hiding in the nooks and crannies of your enterprise. Outage situations cascade into catastrophes, as an attempt to resolve a problem creates another outage and quickly spirals out of control. But with careful planning or swift corrective action, almost all downtime scenarios can be prevented.

This book discusses numerous technologies that can prevent or drastically reduce a variety of database outages. What are these downtime scenarios? Which possible outages can you protect yourself against? The fact is that the Maximum ...

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