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RE: "Oracle Streams" by Madhu Tumma

From: Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:00:32 +1100
Message-ID: <20051112090032476.00000003384@psharman-au>












Dunno about the book, but you’re right to question the comment on Streams vs. RAC.  Streams is not a replacement for RAC and never will be.  The two technologies solve totally different problems.

 

 

Pete

 

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From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Alex Gorbachev
Sent: Saturday, 12 November 2005 8:42 AM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: "Oracle Streams" by Madhu Tumma

 

Hi all,

Is this one good?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0974599352/103-0891699-0877465?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

I can see the review from Mr. Burleson who was apparently an editor as well (well, expected for Rampant Press).

The comment seem a bit odd to me:

As the editor for this book I was able to read the in-depth utility of Oracle Streams and see how it is going to be a super-hot technology. Oracle Streams is a great replacement for the older standby-database technology and it's is also a great alternative to Oracle RAC clusters.

Best of all, Oracle Streams is a great way to set-up a disaster recovery server, and also use the server for traffic. Tumma did an exceptional job on this book and I highly recommend it for anyone considering failover or disaster recovery solutions.

Madhu's text goes far-beyond the nuts-and-bolts and he shares real-world secrets and techniques for using Oracle Streams in a mission-critical environment. If you need to understand high-speed Oracle replication, this is a must-have book.


I am really surpised to consider Oracle Streams anywhere close to replacement of RAC. I am also quite skeptical to that it's an appropriate solution for DR... well, maybe... maybe...

Anyway, I promised that two books from this Sir are the last ones that I have on my bookshelf (one of them was only edited by him though).
 

No surprise on this one:

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful

 

Is there an alternative reading (besides manuals) on Oracle Streams? I would buy this one but after few recent notes/blogs from some prominent authors I am kind of reassured that it might be just loosing my time. Or maybe this one is good to have?


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Best regards,
Alex Gorbachev
 

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