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Practical Oracle Database Appliance is a hands-on book taking you through the components and implementation of the Oracle Database Appliance. Learn about architecture, installation, configuration, and reconfiguration. Install and configure the Oracle Database Appliance with confidence. Make the right choices between the various configurations in order to realize your performance requirements. Manage and monitor the appliance to meet business requirements. Protect your data through proper backup and recovery procedures.

Oracle Database is one of the most relied-up databases in industry. For many years Oracle Database was a software product that had to be installed and configured at no small expense. The Oracle Database Appliance makes Oracle Database into a plug-and-play proposition: Plug the appliance into the wall socket, and turn it on. That´s it. You have a running database server. This book takes you through that beginning point and beyond, helping you to realize in your own organization the ease of deployment and management represented by the appliance.

Covers the Oracle Database Appliance from architecture through configuration.
Provides a technical resource for system- and database administrators.
Examines practical use cases for the Oracle Database Appliance.

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Oracle Database Appliance
Integrated Lights Out Management
Installation
Database Configuration
Networking
Monitoring the Oracle Database Appliance
Diagnosing the Oracle Database Appliance
Patching the Oracle Database Appliance
Business Values for the ODA
Virtualization and the ODA
e-Business Suite and the ODA
Oracle Enterprise Manager and the ODA

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Bobby Curtis is an Oracle ACE, Senior Technical Consultant, and member of various Oracle User Groups. He specializes in creating, managing, and tuning enterprise databases. His specialties include Exadata, GoldenGate replication, and he is known for his work in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Bubby´s blog, http://dbasolved.com, and twitter handle, DBASolved, are respected as sources of information on solving complex issues related to Oracle products. He is either a lead author or co-author on various technical books, has published various technical articles in user group publications, and he´s presented at conferences including Oracle Open World, Collaborate, and ODTUG KScope. Bobby currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three kids.

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