Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide

by Francisco Munoz Alvarez
     
 

The three main responsibilities of a successful DBA are to ensure the availability, recoverability, and performance of any database. To ensure the recoverability of any database, a DBA needs to have a strong backup and recovery skills set. Every DBA is always looking for a reference book that will help them to solve any possible backup and recovery situation that

Overview

The three main responsibilities of a successful DBA are to ensure the availability, recoverability, and performance of any database. To ensure the recoverability of any database, a DBA needs to have a strong backup and recovery skills set. Every DBA is always looking for a reference book that will help them to solve any possible backup and recovery situation that they can come across in their professional life.

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide has the unique advantage to be a reference to all Oracle backup and recovery options available, making it essential for any DBA in the world. If you are new to Oracle Database, this book will introduce you to the fantastic world of backup and recovery that is vital to your success. If you are an experienced DBA, this book will become a reference guide and will also help you to learn some possible new skills, or give you some new ideas you were never aware about. It will also help you to easily find the solution to some of the most well known problems you could find during your career as a DBA. This book contains useful screenshots, scripts, and examples that you will find more than useful.

Most of the books currently available in the market concentrate only on the RMAN utility to backup and recovery. This book will be an exception to the rule and will become a must-have reference, allowing you to design a real and complete backup and recovery strategy. It covers the most important topics on Oracle database such as backup strategies, Nologging operations, new features in 12c, user managed backups and recoveries, RMAN (including reporting, catalog management, troubleshooting, and performance tuning), advanced data pump, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and SQL Developer.

"Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide" contains everything a DBA needs to know to keep data safe and recoverable, using real-life scenarios.

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9781782171201
Publisher:
Packt Publishing
Publication date:
09/25/2013
Pages:
440
Sales rank:
1,346,131
Product dimensions:
7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.89(d)

Meet the Author

Francisco Munoz has over 23 years of experience in consulting, analysis, support, implementation, and migration of Oracle products. He is also an expert in most phases of a database life cycle, for example, development, stabilization, security, backup and recovery, tuning, installations, and data warehouse (ETL) with excellent implementation and support methodologies, being a popular speaker on many Oracle conferences around the world.

He is also the President of CLOUG (Chilean Oracle Users Group), LAOUC (Latin American Oracle Users Groups Community which is the umbrella organization for all Latin America), and NZOUG (New Zealand Oracle Users Group). Francisco worked as an associate technologist at Oracle Brazil and Chile, was an Oracle instructor for New Horizons Centre, Chile and for Oracle education (Brazil and Chile), and also worked on the first team to introduce Oracle to South America (Oracle 6 and Beta version of Oracle 7). He was also the first Master Oracle 7 Database Administrator in South America, as well the first South American Oracle professional to be awarded a double ACE (ACE at 2008 and ACE Director at 2009) by Oracle HQ and in 2010 he had the privilege of receiving a prestigious Oracle Magazine Editor's Choice Awards as the Oracle evangelist of the year - a huge recognition of his outstanding achievements in the Oracle world that includes the creation and organization of the already famous OTN Tours, which are the biggest Oracle evangelist events in the world.

Currently, Francisco works for Revera Limited which is a leading provider of utility computing infrastructure and enterprise data management in New Zealand as the Oracle Professional Services Manager since June, 2011.

Aman Sharma is an Oracle database consultant and instructor. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications and has been working with the Oracle database for over a decade. His main focus is to understand how the Oracle database works internally. Besides the core database, he has a very strong knowledge of Linux, Solaris, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

He is an Oracle Certified Professional and also an Oracle Certified Expert in Oracle RAC, SQL, and Linux. He is also an Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist and a certified Solaris System Administrator. He loves to share his learning with the Oracle community, so when he is not delivering an Oracle related session, he spends a lot of his time participating in OTN (Oracle Technology Network) Oracle discussion forums. He also maintains an Oracle blog ( http://blog.aristadba.com ). He is a strong supporter of user groups and is a member of the India Oracle user group ( http://www.aioug.org ) and has been a speaker at various Oracle conferences organized by AIOUG. He is also an associate member of IOUG ( http://www.ioug.org ). In 2010, he received the prestigious Oracle ACE award from Oracle Corporation.

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