The "Oracle Backup and Recovery Handbook" covers version 7.3 and adds A whole new set of backup and recovery techniques. More importantly, the author has added a new case study to the book on "standby... This description may be from another edition of this product.
An outstanding book with in-depth coverage of backup and recovery principles and valuable section of case studies (step-by-step recovery procedures for different kind of failures). The sample code is notoriously bugged but with some work these UNIX shell scripts can be fixed and be used for daily database backup. Very usefull to have (by the way, I have three different editions of this book (for Oracle 7, 7.3 and 8).
The book is practical. Need more live examples for recovery
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
The book is very practical. Recovery being a very critical process, can include more live examples on recovery. A demo CD would be idle.
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