Emre Baransel - Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginners Guide

Emre Baransel is a graduate of Electrical and Electronic engineering and has two Master's, one in Business Administration and the other one in Information Systems. He has been working in the IT industry for the past 10 years. He has worked for one of the largest fixed-line and GSM technology-based companies in Turkey. He was nominated as an Oracle ACE in 2012. He's an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), a founding member of TROUG (Turkish Oracle User Group), and a blogger at emrebaransel.blogspot.com. He has spoken at the Oracle Open World in the US and at user group conferences in different countries of Europe. He has also contributed to the Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery book in 2010. He has focused specially on high database availability and disaster recovery solutions, cloud technologies, and database security.

First of all, I would like to thank the love of my life, my wife Tulay, for her patience and support during the time I was writing this book, and my super sweet son Demir for his presence in my life. I would also like to thank my co-author Nassyam for his great effort on this book under intense work pressure, the technical reviewers Jaffar, Joel, and Michael for their valuable time, and the Packt Publishing team for all their help and labor on this book. Thousands of hours were spent on this book by many different people. Thank you all who made this book possible.

Nassyam Basha is a Database Administrator. He has around seven years of IT experience of which the last five years have been as a Production Oracle DBA. He is a post graduate who holds a master's degree in Computer Applications from the University of Madras. He started working with dBase and FoxPro, and has participated in several projects with FoxPro and Oracle database starting from Oracle 7. He is an Oracle 10 g Certified Professional having good knowledge in Oracle technologies such as Data Guard, RMAN, RAC, and performance tuning. He has completed more than 90 Data Guard setups on all platforms, from RAC to non-RAC and successful cluster migrations with switchovers and failovers for many business-critical production databases with major Data Guard-related issues. He actively participates in Oracle-related forums such as OTN, having 9000+ posts, using the profile Freelists (>.

Above and beyond all others, I have to thank my Almighty Allah and my parents N. Abdul Aleem and Rahimunnisa. Without them I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. A special thanks to my brother Nawaz Basha who has been with me all the time, in joy and even in sadness, and to my family members Zaheer Ahamed, Farhana, Riyana, niece Fathima Zehra, and my nephew Azzoo. I would also like to express my gratitude to Oracle professionals such as Shahbaz, Mohammad Farhan, Syed Jaffar Hussain, Chinar Aliyev, Michael Seberg, Uwe Hesse, Mohamed Houri, Adi Narayana, and all my friends along with my favorite authors Larry Carpenter and Joseph Meeks. I shall not forget to thank my clients and colleagues who have provided me with invaluable opportunities to expand my knowledge and shape my career. My heartfelt appreciation goes to the technical reviewers of this book, Syed Jaffar Hussain, Michael Seberg, and Joel Perez for the time they have spent reviewing this book, and to Packt Publishing's team members, Stephanie Moss, Leena Purkait, and Martin Bell for their support. Thanks to all of them and to their team members for giving me the opportunity to write this book. Last but not the least, I would like to say a big thanks to Emre Baransel who gave me the opportunity to co-author this book with him. His help, along with his direction were strong assets to write. Thank you Emre.

Syed Jaffer Hussain has been an Oracle Database Expert for over 14 years in his 20 years of Information Technology (IT) career. Over the past 14 years of his Oracle journey, he has been associated with several local and large-scale international banks where he implemented and managed very complex cluster and non-cluster environments with hundreds of business critical databases. Recognizing his efforts and contribution towards the community, Oracle awarded him the prestigious Best DBA of the year award in 2011, and bestowed him with the Oracle ACE Director status. He has also acquired a number of industry best-Oracle credentials, such as Oracle Certified Master (OCM), Oracle RAC Expert, and OCP DBA 8 i , 9 i , 10 g , and 11 g in addition to ITIL expertise.

Syed is an active Oracle speaker. He regularly presents technical sessions and webinars on various Oracle technologies at many Oracle events. You can visit his technical blog at http://jaffardba.blogspot.com, where he discusses and writes about workarounds/solutions for the issues confronted by him in his day-to-day activities.

Apart from being a part of the core Technical Review committee for a few Oracle technology-oriented books, he has also co-authored the books Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Cluster Essentials and Oracle Expert RAC .

I would like to thank the Almighty and my parents for giving me everything I needed to become what I am today in life. Also, I owe a very big thanks to my wife Ayesha and my three champs (Ashfaq, Arfan, and Aahil) for allowing me to concentrate on my work by sacrificing their family time. Last but not the least, from the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank every individual who stood behind me and supported me morally during my ups and downs and encouraged me all through my life.