List of Sidebars

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Chapter 1: Oracle and Availability: Illustrated Downtime Scenarios

Partitioning, mviews, and Index-Organized-Tables

Cross-Platform Transportable Tablespaces

Use Services to Allocate Workloads to Higher Priority Applications

Use AWR and ADDM to Quickly Identify and Resolve Bottlenecks

Use ASM to Simplify Disk and File Management

RAC Clusters Mask Problems Involving a Single Node

Transparent Application Failover (TAF) Allows Queries to Be Failed Over to Another Node and Restarted Automatically

RAC Handles Instance Recovery from Surviving Nodes

Recovery Manager (RMAN) Provides Media Recovery of Data Blocks

Avoid Long Tape Restores with RMAN Flashback Recovery Area

Protect Against Node Failure with a Robust Archive Strategy

Use Flashback Table to Restore a Table to a Previous State

Use Flashback Drop to Restore Dropped Objects

When There Is an Unrecoverable Operation, Use Flashback Database

Use Oracle Streams to Replicate Data to Unique Databases on Different Operating Systems

Protect Yourself Against Disaster with Data Guard

Chapter 6: Utility Computing: Applications as Services

Modifying Services

Chapter 8: Backup and Recovery for High-Availability Environments

What is the snapshot controlfile?

Parallelization and Multiplexing for RMAN Backups

Chapter 9: Oracle Flashback: Surviving User-Induced Trauma

Enabling Row Movement and Flashback Table

How long do objects live in the Recycle Bin?

Chapter 10: Oracle Streams for High Availability

Streams Pool vs. Shared Pool

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