Re: "Oracle Streams" by Madhu Tumma

From: Terry Sutton <terrysutton_at_usa.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:42:17 -0800
Message-ID: <007e01c5e8b4$4e8fa040$6401a8c0@TerryVaio>

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

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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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Sun Nov 13 2005 - 18:44:05 CST