Bryla - Oracle Database 12c DBA Handbook

Bob Bryla is an Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, and 12c Certified Professional with more than 20 years of experience in database design, database application development, training, and Oracle database administration. He is the primary Oracle DBA and database systems engineer at Epic in Verona, Wisconsin. He is a technical editor for a number of Oracle Press books, including several certification study guides for Oracle Database 10g, 11g, and 12c. He has also been known to watch science fiction movies and tinker with Android devices in his spare time.

Scott Gossett is a technical director in the Oracle Advanced Technologies Solutions organization with more than 23 years of experience specializing in Oracle RAC, performance tuning, and high-availability databases. Prior to becoming a technical director, Scott was a senior principal instructor for Oracle Education for over 12 years, primarily teaching Oracle internals, performance tuning, RAC, and database administration. In addition, Scott is one of the architects and primary authors of the Oracle Certified Master exam. Scott has been a technical editor for twelve Oracle Press books.

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To the gang at home: I couldnt have done it
without you! And the pizzas. And the
heavy metal. And several shows on the BBC.

BB

PART I
Database Architecture

PART II
Database Management

PART III
High Availability

PART IV
Networked Oracle

PART I
Database Architecture

PART II
Database Management

PART III
High Availability

PART IV
Networked Oracle

M any technical books need the expertise of more than one person, and this one is no exception. The people I collaborated with for this book at Oracle Open World, Oracle Support, and in the Oracle Partner Network are too numerous to mention but all played an important role in this book.

Thanks also go out to all the people at McGraw-Hill Education who kept this book on a reasonable schedule and learned to be even more patient with me than ever before, including Paul Carlstroem and Amanda Russell. Thanks also to Scott Gossett, who gave me good advice when the theoretical met the practical.

Many of my professional colleagues at Epic were a source of both inspiration and guidance: James Slager, Scott Hinman, Joe Obbish, and Lonny Niederstadt. In this case, the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

If you have any questions or comments about any part of this book, please do not hesitate to contact me at rjbdba@gmail.com.