Contents at a Glance
PART 1
Logical Availability
1. Oracle and Availability: Illustrated Downtime Scenarios
2. RDBMS Features for Availability
HA Workshop: Use DBMS_REDEFINITION TO Change a Table to a Partitioned IOT
HA Workshop: Configuring and Using LogMiner from the SQL Interface
HA Workshop: Transport a Tablespace from Solaris to Linux
3. Tuning Your Database for Availability
HA Workshop: Exploring the Workload Repository
HA Workshop: Managing ASM Through Enterprise Manager

PART 2
Real Application Clusters
4. RAC Setup and Configuration
HA Workshop: Configure a Linux/ RAC Cluster
HA Workshop: Install OCFS and Configure OCFS Drives
5. Database Administration in a RAC Environment
HA Workshop: Enable Arching and Flashback in a RAC Database
HA Workshop: Removing a Node from a Cluster
6. Utility Computing: Applications as Services

PART 3
Disaster Planning
7. Oracle Data Guard: Surviving the Disaster
HA Workshop: Creating a Physical Standby
HA Workshop: Changing the Protection Mode
HA Workshop: Monitoring a Physical Standby Progress
HA Workshop: Handling Physical Changes
HA Workshop: Recovering from a Failed DDL Transaction
HA Workshop: Performing Switchover with Logical Standby
HA Workshop: Failover to a Physical Standby
HA Workshop: Failover to a Logical Standby
HA Workshop: Performing a Flashback After a Failover
8. Backup and Recovery for High-Availability Environments
HA Workshop: Schedule a Backup Job from Enterprise Manaer Database Control
HA Workshop: Configure the Flashback Recovery Area
HA Workshop: Setting Permanent Configuration Parameters for High-Availability Backup Strategy
HA Workshop: Using Incrementally Updated Backups
HA Workshop: Recovering from a Complete Loss
HA Workshop: Use RMAN to Create a Standby Database
HA Workshop: Back Up Directly to Tape from the Standby
HA Workshop: Configure RMAN to Back Up from the Split Mirror
9. Oracle Flashback : Surviving User- Induced Trauma
HA Workshop: Exploring Flashback Versions Query
HA Workshop: Explore Flashback Transaction Query
HA Workshop: Explore Flashback Table
HA Workshop: Explore Flashback Drop and the Recycle Bin
HA Workshop: Configure for Flashback Database
HA Workshop: Perform Flashback Database

PART 4
Distributed Database Solutions
10. Oracle Streams for High Availability
HA Workshop: Configuring Streams Replication
HA Workshop: Configuring Streams for Downstream Capture
11. Oracle Net Configuration for Failover
HA Workshop: Configuring and Testing TAF
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