Clusterware

This is not intended as a complete book review, but a warm recommendation of a book I’ve found very useful the last couple of months. That is, highly recommended if you are working with RAC or going to start with a RAC project soon. I have been working on and off with RAC for several years, but I don’t take any new RAC project lightly. Starting in November I was involved with a proof of concept for a large public customer. Before and during this project I have relied a lot on this book: Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux written by Steve Shaw and Martin Bach . ...

OOW has been great and I’m reaching the limit of how much information I can consume for a while. I’ll probably spend some weeks or months reading and understanding presentations. Time to go home and practice what I’ve learned. I’m not even going to try to report dutifully on every session today. Just say that I’ve been to Real-World Performance Questions and Answers, Oracle Database Optimizer: Tips for Preventing Suboptimal Execution Plans, Looking Under the Hood at Oracle Clusterware 11g Release 2, and Under the Hood of Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Fault Tolerance. The first one was great fun, 3 of 4 had more than 20 years experience in this field. The youngest “only” 8. Greg Rahn revealed they have a “secret”: they try to solve complex problems with simple solutions. Graham Woods advised people to ask Why? and understand what you are doing before you actually change anything in production. Simple guidelines, but since many are not following them it needs to be repeated. ...