From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Nov 11 16:03:02 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jABM32OW025500 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:03:02 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jABM2rvX025481 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:02:53 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id CB551225ACA; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:02:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24472-07; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:02:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 41137225AE4; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:02:45 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:00:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 08BA3225A8D for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:00:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24192-01 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:00:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com (rgminet01.oracle.com [148.87.122.30]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id AA60C225A7B for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:00:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id jABM0l6k028981; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:00:48 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id jABM0lWb019746; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:00:47 -0700 Received: from us.oracle.com (dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-220.dhcpamer.oracle.com [130.35.178.220]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id jABM0frg019396; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:00:41 -0700 From: "Pete Sharman" To: "gorbyx@gmail.com" , "Oracle-L Freelists" Cc: "Peter Ross Sharman" Subject: RE: "Oracle Streams" by Madhu Tumma Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:00:32 +1100 Message-ID: <20051112090032476.00000003384@psharman-au> In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-au, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAIX-Whitelist: TRUE X-archive-position: 28287 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: peter.sharman@oracle.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: peter.sharman@oracle.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_60_70, HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=no version=2.63

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.

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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
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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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