K. Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) is an award-winning coauthor ("Oracle Author of the Year 2005"-Oracle Magazine) of Oracle Wait Interface (Oracle Press). He also authored Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters also from Oracle Press (Nov 2006). He has published articles in various international Magazines and is recognized as one of the leading database performance tuning experts in the world. Oracle Technology Network also recognizes him as an Oracle ACE. Gopal has worked with several of the biggest and busiest databases on the planet and has deep experience in the performance management and tuning of very large online transactional databases. Sam R. Alapati is an experienced Oracle DBA who holds the Oracle OCP DBA (11g) certification and the Hewlett-Packard UNIX System Administrator certification. He currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America’s national office in Irving, Texas. Previously, Sam worked for AMR Holdings (Sabre) and the Blanch Company in Dallas. Sam was a Senior Principal Consultant for Oracle Corporation in New York, in which capacity he worked at NBC and Lehman Brothers. In addition to being a professional Oracle database administrator, Sam has also taught Oracle DBA classes for many students. Sam taught college level courses at Kansas State University, University of Texas at Austin, and Rutgers University.

• Part 1: High Availability Architecture and ClustersChapter 1: Introduction to High Availability and ScalabilityChapter 2: Oracle Database Clustering Basics and its EvolutionChapter 3: Oracle RAC Architecture Part 2: Installation, Configuration and StorageChapter 4: Oracle Grid Infrastructure InstallationChapter 5: Installing Oracle RAC and Creating an Oracle RAC DatabaseChapter 6: Automatic Storage Management Part 3: Oracle RAC Administration and ManagementChapter 7: Oracle RAC Basic AdministrationChapter 8: Managing Oracle ClusterwareChapter 9: Oracle RAC Backup and RecoveryChapter 10: Oracle RAC Performance Management Part 4: Advanced Concepts in RACChapter 11: Global resource Directory (GES and GCS)Chapter 12: A Closer Look at Cache FusionChapter 13: Managing the Workload, Connection Management and Application ContinuityChapter 14: RAC Troubleshooting Part 5: Deploying Oracle RACChapter 15: Extending Oracle RAC for Maximum Availability Chapter 16: Developing Applications for RAC Appendix A: Oracle RAC ReferenceAppendix B: Adding and Removing Cluster Nodes

K. Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) is an award-winning coauthor ("Oracle Author of the Year 2005"-Oracle Magazine) of Oracle Wait Interface (Oracle Press). He also authored Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters also from Oracle Press (Nov 2006). He has published articles in various international Magazines and is recognized as one of the leading database performance tuning experts in the world. Oracle Technology Network also recognizes him as an Oracle ACE. Gopal has worked with several of the biggest and busiest databases on the planet and has deep experience in the performance management and tuning of very large online transactional databases. Sam R. Alapati is an experienced Oracle DBA who holds the Oracle OCP DBA (11g) certification and the Hewlett-Packard UNIX System Administrator certification. He currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America’s national office in Irving, Texas. Previously, Sam worked for AMR Holdings (Sabre) and the Blanch Company in Dallas. Sam was a Senior Principal Consultant for Oracle Corporation in New York, in which capacity he worked at NBC and Lehman Brothers. In addition to being a professional Oracle database administrator, Sam has also taught Oracle DBA classes for many students. Sam taught college level courses at Kansas State University, University of Texas at Austin, and Rutgers University.

• Part 1: High Availability Architecture and ClustersChapter 1: Introduction to High Availability and ScalabilityChapter 2: Oracle Database Clustering Basics and its EvolutionChapter 3: Oracle RAC Architecture Part 2: Installation, Configuration and StorageChapter 4: Oracle Grid Infrastructure InstallationChapter 5: Installing Oracle RAC and Creating an Oracle RAC DatabaseChapter 6: Automatic Storage Management Part 3: Oracle RAC Administration and ManagementChapter 7: Oracle RAC Basic AdministrationChapter 8: Managing Oracle ClusterwareChapter 9: Oracle RAC Backup and RecoveryChapter 10: Oracle RAC Performance Management Part 4: Advanced Concepts in RACChapter 11: Global resource Directory (GES and GCS)Chapter 12: A Closer Look at Cache FusionChapter 13: Managing the Workload, Connection Management and Application ContinuityChapter 14: RAC Troubleshooting Part 5: Deploying Oracle RACChapter 15: Extending Oracle RAC for Maximum Availability Chapter 16: Developing Applications for RAC Appendix A: Oracle RAC ReferenceAppendix B: Adding and Removing Cluster Nodes