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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: "Oracle Streams" by Madhu Tumma
Are you here talking about the same person?
Burleson Logic Bomb Case
In September 1987, Donald Burleson, a 40-year-old programmer at the Fort Worth based insurance company, USPA, was fired for allegedly being quarrelsome and difficult to work with. Two days later, approximately 168,000 vital records erased themselves from the company computers. A logic bomb had gone off, wreaking havoc with the files that were the lifeblood of USPA! Burleson was caught after investigators went back through several years worth of system files. They found that two years before he was fired Burleson had planted a logic bomb which lay dormant until he triggered it on the day of his dismissal. He became the first person in America to be convicted of "harmful access to a computer.''
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> Don Burleson is not just an editor, he's the owner of Rampart Press. Quite
> surprising that he would recommend a book his company published, eh?
>
> --Terry
> 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
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>
> 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?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Alex Gorbachev
>
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