Book title- The Cloud DBA- Oracle
Publisher- Apress, US
Where can you purchase – Available at Amazon and Apress sites with option of e-book, kindle edition and paper edition
Synopsis
Cloud adoption in Database world is growing very rapidly. Various research and studies shows and forecasts the DBaaS & Cloud Database service Market to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of more than 65% by 2019. Currently available books either talks about cloud computing or database administration, but not both. This book bridges this gap with detailed focus on two major Public DBaaS providers- Oracle & Amazon.
The book covers various areas starting with introduction to Cloud computing, Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), database creation in Public Cloud, High Availability and Disaster recovery setup, Security and Management. It also explains various database migration methods to move to Cloud and how to monitor the databases that are hosted in cloud. Backup and Recovery, being most important aspect of databases, is also covered in details along with various tools for database administration.
Key features of the book that make it stand out are:
1. It gives overview of Database-as-a-Service concept that can be used for defining Cloud adoption strategy.
2. Gives in-depth details of DBaaS offerings from two major Cloud service providers for Oracle database. i.e. Oracle Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
3. Talks about the database administration techniques relevant to database hosted in Cloud
4. Lays down the technical details to perform all database administration tasks and activities like- migration to cloud, backup in cloud, new database/DR setup in cloud etc.
5. Best Practices for database administration in Cloud
6. Gives an overview of determining the right tools that need to be chosen for given Cloud database administration work at hand
This book is uniquely positioned to make Database architects, Database administrators, Database managers and Database operations support person to be cloud ready.
Paperbook and Kindle edition at Amazon.com
Paperbook and Kindle edition at Amazon.co.uk
E-book at Apress.com
Kindle Edition at Amazon.in