Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide, 9781782171201 (1782171207), Packt Publishing, 2013

A comprehensive guide for every DBA to learn recovery and backup solutions

Overview

A practical reference to all Oracle backup and recovery options available, making it essential to any DBA in the world
A valuable guide for readers on the most frequent backup and recovery scenarios they can find in real life
Provides hands-on examples and a full hands-on lab to practise everything learned in this book

In Detail

The three main responsibilities of a successful DBA are to ensure the availability, recoverability, and performance of any database. To ensure the recoverability of any database, a DBA needs to have a strong backup and recovery skills set. Every DBA is always looking for a reference book that will help them to solve any possible backup and recovery situation that they can come across in their professional life.

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide has the unique advantage to be a reference to all Oracle backup and recovery options available, making it essential for any DBA in the world. If you are new to Oracle Database, this book will introduce you to the fantastic world of backup and recovery that is vital to your success. If you are an experienced DBA, this book will become a reference guide and will also help you to learn some possible new skills, or give you some new ideas you were never aware about. It will also help you to easily find the solution to some of the most well known problems you could find during your career as a DBA. This book contains useful screenshots, scripts, and examples that you will find more than useful.

Most of the books currently available in the market concentrate only on the RMAN utility to backup and recovery. This book will be an exception to the rule and will become a must-have reference, allowing you to design a real and complete backup and recovery strategy. It covers the most important topics on Oracle database such as backup strategies, Nologging operations, new features in 12c, user managed backups and recoveries, RMAN (including reporting, catalog management, troubleshooting, and performance tuning), advanced data pump, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and SQL Developer.

"Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide" contains everything a DBA needs to know to keep data safe and recoverable, using real-life scenarios.

What you will learn from this book

Understand all the options available for the backup and recovery of a database to be used in case of a disaster and how to survive it
Learn how to use RMAN and take advantage of its advanced functionalities
Use Data Pump for more than just backups, learning how powerful this utility is
Take advantage of Nologging operations in a safe and proper way
Perform backups and recovery properly in Multitenant and non-CDB environments
Take advantage of OEM12c and SQL Developer to fulfil your backup requirements and reduce risk in your organization
Understand the new features in 12c offered for backup and recovery and how to perform backup and recovery operations on it
Get familiar with the available range of Oracle products for backup and recovery, not only RMAN

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