Preface

This book introduces you to Oracle best practices for deploying a highly available database environment, and provides best practices for configuring the Oracle MAA reference architectures.

This preface contains these topics:

Audience

This book is intended for chief technology officers, information technology architects, database administrators, system administrators, network administrators, and application administrators who perform the following tasks:

  • Plan data centers

  • Implement data center policies

  • Maintain high availability systems

  • Plan and build high availability solutions

Related Documents

Knowledge of Oracle AI Database, Oracle RAC, and Data Guard concepts and terminology is required to understand the configuration and implementation details described in this book. For more information, see the Oracle AI Database documentation set. These books may be of particular interest:

Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle AI Database. See Oracle AI Database Sample Schemas for information about using these schemas.

Also, you can download the Oracle MAA best practice technical briefs at http://www.oracle.com/goto/maa.

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