Reviews for Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux: Installation, Administration, and Performance: Installation, Administration and Performance (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

1. Excellent

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, August 12th, 2009

   This book is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn about Oracle's Real Application Clustering (RAC) technologies. Its easy to read, well laid out and goes into a reasonable amount of detail without losing the reader. Although the title is "RAC on Linux", I wouldnt be put off buying this book if you are on some other flavour of *nix as pretty much everything conceptual still applies. The examples and code in the book are all based around Oracle 10g R2 - heres hoping Julian is writing a followup for 11g!

2. Good - very technical

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2008

   I'm pretty happy with this book. It's got a lot of pure technical detail and very little waffle. If you want a lot of hand-holding, then this is probably not the book for you: it doesn't prescribe what you should do; instead it gives you the background information so you can make your own decisions.
   
   It covers the whole stack, which is essential - you can't build a RAC solution without paying attention to the storage hardware, network etc.
   
   If I had to criticise, I would say that a few more diagrams would help. More an improvement than a significant weakness.
   
   I would place it as most suitable for developers or administrators already well experienced with Oracle and Unix/Linux. If you're a newcomer, then you probably also want one of the many good (non-RAC) architecture books (Kyte's Expert Oracle Database Architecture maybe) or possibly a course. But if you are experienced, then this book should be all you need to devise a RAC solution.