Oracle Database Online Documentation 11g Release 1 (11.1)
High Availability
Maximize database availability using Oracle Data Guard and other technologies.
Describes Oracle's approach for a highly available database environment. Provides an overview of high availability and helps you to determine your high availability requirements. It also describes Oracle Database products and features that are designed to support high availability and describes the primary database architectures that can help your business achieve high availability.
Data Guard
Maximize availability of Oracle databases using Data Guard to provide failover capabilities.
Provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle Data Guard concepts and describes how to configure and implement standby databases that can take over production operations if your production database becomes unusable. This guide includes several database scenarios such as creating, recovering, failing over, switching over, configuring, and backing up standby and primary databases.
Describes the Oracle Data Guard broker, a management and monitoring interface that automates many of the tasks involved in configuring and monitoring standby databases in an Oracle Data Guard configuration. This guide provides comprehensive descriptions and examples for using both the command-line interface and the Oracle Data Guard Manager graphical user interface.
Backup and Recovery
Enhance database availability using the full range of backup and recovery capabilities of the Oracle database, such as Recovery Manager and the flashback features.
Provides in-depth information on the mechanics of backup and recovery, and a guide to performing complex and less frequently performed backup and recovery tasks, including user-managed backup and recovery and performance tuning of backup and recovery.
Oracle Streams
Oracle Streams enables the propagation and management of data, transactions and events within and among databases.
Contains conceptual information about Oracle Streams and information about configuring, administering, and monitoring an Oracle Streams environment. Also includes detailed examples of using Oracle Streams for various purposes.
Contains conceptual information about Oracle Streams replication and about configuring, administering, and monitoring an Oracle Streams replication environment. Also includes detailed examples of configuring Oracle Streams replication environments.
Describes features of application development and integration using the Oracle messaging system, Advanced Queuing. Includes the PL/SQL, C, Visual Basic, Java, and JMS interfaces to AQ and gateways to non-Oracle messaging systems.
Advanced Replication
Advanced Replication can be used as part of maximizing database availability by reproducing your database at multiple sites.
Contains conceptual information about Oracle Advanced Replication. Also includes information about planning an Advanced Replication environment, an introduction to the Replication Management tool in Oracle Enterprise Manager, and information about troubleshooting Advanced Replication problems.
Contains reference information about and step-by-step instructions for using the replication management API, which is a set of PL/SQL packages for setting up and managing an Advanced Replication environment. Also includes reference information about data dictionary views that are important for Advanced Replication and security considerations for an Advanced Replication environment.
Windows Platform Database Administration
These books cover adminstration concepts and tasks specific to the Oracle Database on Windows platforms.