Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters

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Summary: The first real 10g Grid book!
Review: As the editor I was privileged to see the authors develop the content for this book and I was very happy to finally see a comprehensive book on Oracle10g Grid technology.

Oracle promotes Grid as cutting-edge, and this book makes it very clear how powerful, sophisticated (and complex) Grid is to install and configure.

The book has complete instructions for installing and configuring Oracle Grid and exceptional descriptions of the Enterprise Manager Grid control features.

Finally, a real-deal Oracle10g Grid book.


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Summary: Something for everyone!
Review: I've worked with RAC (9i and 10g) for quite some time, yet I still founds lots of great stuff in this book. It combines background information about grid and utility computing along with real examples to help you install, configure and tune Oracle 10g RAC.

People new to RAC should definitely check out the chapters on architecture and migration topics.

This book is a must for anyone using, or thinking of using, Oracle 10g RAC.

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Summary: Not technical enough, too much marketing attitude
Review: The book is not technical enough. It really tries to sell Oracle's new, thing, calling itself "grid" ready. Firstly, a database cannot use grid computing with any good scalability and performance. If Real Application Clusters doesnt scale well beyond 4 nodes and you DO have to partition your data to get good performance, how can one expext using even more distributed and non dedicated resources to scale? Oracle is known for using these marketing "approaches". Providing some unified view of enterprise resources is a good thing however it is not grid computing. My critisizim of the book is that it contains a lot of stuff that is just that, a repetition of marketing litrature. It is not critical enough and could have been more technical. The book is good for a marketing or business person. And what is up with the dedication "glory of my god" ?

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Summary: The help I was looking for.
Review: This book is great, it gives real step by step examples for installing and configuring Oracle Grid.

This book is a must.