This book focuses on current technology including all valid RAC features up through Oracle Database 10g Release 2, with main focus on how to use the high-end grid environment. Oracle RAC 10g RAC focuses on specific topics including ASM, operating system configuration, installation and configuration of RAC and much more. The author includes several scripts for performance tuning and implementation that the reader can be used to configure a RAC environment either on the configuration of 2, 4, 8, 60 or 99 nodes. * Focus on implementation, testing and tuning features of Real Application Clusters (RAC) database version 10g Release 2 * Provides extensive coverage of usage, daily functions and operations * Includes tips and techniques such as sample scripts to describe various features of RAC * A jumpstart into all the key features of the RAC 10g R2