Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread Joe Testa
any recommendations? of course besides the oracle docs and technet, which i think i downloaded all that i need. joe -- Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management Consulting p: 614-791-9000 f: 614-791-9001 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author:

Re: Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
AS OF NOW, I have not come across a book which talks about RAC at a detailed level (at least to the level we expect). There are couple of books in the market, but they cover very little on RAC (Concepts and Internals) But, the Oracle Documentation (At least for the RAC part) is very good and it

Re: Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread Ron Rogers
Joe, Last year at the midaltantic Oracle users group seminars there was a presentation by Mike Ault what was very informative on RAC with a budget. I believe that he has some decent information available. You might check www.rampant-books.com for his works. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2004

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2004-01-09 Thread Rognes, Sten
I've read a couple of the books available on RAC: - Oracle9i RAC by Madhu Tumma and Mike Ault is decent, I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5. Good multi-platform coverage and decent coverage of the internals. The book suffers from poor layout/editing. The graphics look like they're photocopied

RE: Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread John Kanagaraj
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Books on rac Joe, Last year at the midaltantic Oracle users group seminars there was a presentation by Mike Ault what was very informative on RAC with a budget. I believe that he has

Re: Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread Ryan
from Rampant are total trash. There is another RAC book with some stuff on 10g by a guy who monitors this listserv(Murali Vallath). I have a copy of it, but have not read it yet. Anyone read either of those RAC books? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

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2004-01-09 Thread William R. Jones
Partly because of the complexity of the technology and uniqueness of each environment, no book in the field will be 100 per cent of what anyone of us needs; however, the following is on my database team's bookshelves: Oracle 9i RAC By Mike Ault Published August 2003 by Rampant Tech Press ISBN:

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2004-01-09 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Books on rac wait... mine wasn't THAT bad... isn't out yet... but isn't that bad. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas @-- Few people really enjoy the simple pleasure of flying a kite Adam Wells age 11 -Original Message- From

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2004-01-09 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Dont know about his RAC book. However, all the other non-Ault books from AW Rampant are total trash. AW There is another RAC book with some stuff on 10g by a guy who monitors this AW listserv(Murali Vallath). I have a copy of it, but have not read it yet. AW Anyone read either of those RAC books

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2004-01-09 Thread Arup Nanda
Title: RE: Books on rac "all the other non-Ault books from Rampant are total trash." That's a pretty strong statement, Ryan! Mine is a non-Ault Rampant book; does it count, too? Before you trash the book and commit the statement, can I interest you in at least taking a look at

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2004-01-09 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Re[2]: Books on rac Hi Jonathan Don asked me if I would be interested in writing the Programmers Interview book... the Apps book was just done, so I took him up on the offer. I am writing for CRC... in fact I have one in process now for them. April -Original Message

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2004-01-09 Thread Ryan
Title: RE: Books on rac OK, that statement wasn't fair. I have not looked at Arup's book. I have no interest in HIPAA. So I shouldn't speak on it. These are the Rampant books I have skimmed through that I do not like. However, I have skimmed through several. All the one's I have looked

Re: Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread Jared . Still
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Books on rac beware the rampant press books. Most of them seem to be total garbage. All in large print with little detail. I didnt think much of the Ault Internals book from Rampant... its basically stuff you can copy and paste from metalink. Dont

Re: Books on rac

2004-01-09 Thread Jared . Still
To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Books on rac OK, that statement wasn't fair. I have not looked at Arup's book. I have no interest in HIPAA. So I shouldn't speak on it. These are the Rampant books I have skimmed through that I do not like