Oracle Database 11g—Underground Advice for Database Administrators

Summary

This is an advanced chapter that you will need to refer back to when major changes happen within your enterprise, such as when any piece of hardware is due for replacement. There may be a way of using the older hardware (if the budget is tight) to redeploy for redundancy reasons or it may be a great way of getting your hands on a DBA-only test box.

Maximum Availability Architecture is a methodology, best practiced for maximizing the amount of uptime for your critical applications. Committing to maximizing uptime not only takes physical components but several key organizational practices to be in place. This is where the managers in your IT department need to become involved. If the organizational practices are not present in your organization, ...