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Building Database Clouds in Oracle 12c
Tariq Farooq
Sridhar Avantsa
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Preface
Cloud Computing is all the rage these days. This book focuses on DBaaS (database-as-a-service) and Real Application Clusters (RAC), one of Oracles newest cutting-edge technologies within the Cloud Computing world.
Authored by a world-renowned, veteran author team of Oracle ACEs/ACE directors with a proven track record of multiple best-selling books and an active presence in the Oracle speaking circuit, this book is intended to be a blend of real-world, hands-on operations guide and expert handbook for Oracle 12c DBaaS within Oracle 12c Enterprise Manager (OEM 12c) as well as provide a segue into Oracle 12c RAC.
Targeted for Oracle DBAs and DMAs, this experts handbook is intended to serve as a practical, technical, go-to reference for performing administration operations and tasks for building out, managing, monitoring, and administering DB Clouds with the following objectives:
Practical, technical guide for building Oracle Database Clouds in 12c
Expert, pro-level DBaaS handbook
Real-world DBaaS hands-on operations guide
Expert deployment, management, administration, support, and monitoring guide for Oracle DBaaS
Practical best-practices advice from real-life DBaaS architects/administrators
Guide to setting up virtualized DB Clouds based on Oracle RAC clusters
In this technical, everyday, hands-on, step-by-step book, the authors aim for an audience of intermediate-level, power, and expert users of Oracle 12c DBaaS and RAC.
This book covers the 12c version of the Oracle DB software.
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Acknowledgments
Tariq Farooq
I would like to express boundless thanks for all good things in my life to the Almighty ALLAH, the lord of the worlds, the most gracious, the most merciful.
I dedicate this book to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abdullah Farooq; my awesome wife, Ambreen; my wonderful kids, Sumaiya, Hafsa, Fatima, and Muhammad-Talha; and my nephews, Muhammad-Hamza, Muhammad-Saad, Muhammed-Muaz, Abdul-Karim, and Ibrahim, without whose perpetual support, this book would not have come to fruition. My endless gratitude to them as I dedicated more than two years of my spare time to this book, most of which was on airplanes and in late nights and weekends at home.
My heartfelt gratitude to my friends at the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), my colleagues in the Oracle ACE fellowship, my coworkers, and everyone else within the Oracle community and my workplace for standing behind me in my quest to bring this project to completion, particularly Dave Vitalo.
I had been contemplating authoring a book within the Oracle Cloud domain for a few yearsthe project finally started in 2013. I am very proud of my coauthors industry credentials and the depth of experience that they brought to this endeavor.
From inception to writing to technical review to production, authoring a book is a lengthy labor of love and at times a painful process; this book would not have been possible without the endless support of the awesome Addison-Wesley team. A very special tip-of-the-hat goes to Greg Doench, the executive editor, and all the other folks at Addison-Wesley. Kudos to the technical reviewers, book reviewers, and editorial teams at Addison-Wesley for an amazing job on this book.