Until now, the topic of Real Application Clusters (RAC) implementation had never fully explored. For the first time, Murali Vallath dissects RAC mysteries in his book Oracle Real Application Clusters to enlighten and educate readers in the internal RAC operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes and fast reconfiguration of RAC. This book provides comprehensive coverage of technology, features and principles of RAC that is part of Oracle9i release of Oracle's RDBMS product. Performance tuning with examples, tips and troubleshooting scenarios that are discussed in detail, as well as discussion about the migration process from a single instance database to RAC and migration from OPS implementation to RAC. Oracle Real Application Clusters takes readers through a logical flow from RAC concepts to operations, covering every aspect with fine-tooth comb. * Focus on the features of the implementation, testing and tuning Real Application Clusters (RAC) * Provides extensive coverage of usage, daily functions and operations * Includes tips and techniques such as sample scripts to illustrate various features of RAC * Dismantle the internals of RAC architecture