RE: Rama Velpuri's 9i Backup and Recovery Book Available?

Personally speaking I think that it is one of the best books available on Backup and Recovery.....the case studies at the end of the boom r pure gems. I have the Oracle 8 edition and the concepts r very clearly explained esp. Media Recovery the concepts of which r still not very clear to many DBAs. I agree with Dennis on the RMAN portion though but I have heard that they have
revised it in the 8i edition.
I have got the RMAN pocket reference by O'Reilly too and found it to b very useful.

Do get the book cos it is a sure keeper......I dont think there is a 9i Backup and Recovery book yet available.

Samir Sarkar
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I have the earlier version of Velpuri's book and find that it is excellent. One thing to keep in mind is that Oracle isn't putting much effort into the hot/cold backup & recovery recently. Therefore if your interest is in that area, then I wouldn't wait for a new edition (your database might crash before then).

        John - Thanks for pointing out that Velpuri's book isn't very strong in RMAN. I recently purchased the O'Reilly Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference. I haven't had a chance to dig deeply into it, but I am confident it is worth the $13 U.S. it cost. That is a current problem with RMAN - the lack of good documentation.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sam,

If you want to understand the internals of Hot/cold backup/recovery (with case studies!) as well as the Database in general, this is an excellent book. If you are looking for extensive RMAN-only information, then you may be disappointed... I would certainly buy it! (already have the 7.3 as well as the 8.0 version)

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
John Kanagaraj
Oracle Applications DBA
DBSoft Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Bootsma [mailto:SamB_at_cpas.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:10 AM
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> Subject: FW: Rama Velpuri's 9i Backup and Recovery Book Available?
>
>
> > I am thinking of buying Rama Velpuri's book, 'Oracle 8i Backup and
> > Recovery'. Can anybody tell me if this is still considered
> to be one of
> > the best Oracle Backup and Recovery books available? Before
> buying the 8i
> > version of this book, can anybody tell me if there is a 9i
> book available?
> > Or if there are plans to produce a 9i version of the book
> and when it
> > might be available?
> > Thanks,
> > Sam.
> >
> >
> >
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