IMPORTANT LINKS

Oracle By Example (OBE)

The Oracle by Example (OBE) series provides hands-on, step-by-step instructions on how to implement various technology solutions to business problems. OBE solutions are built for practical real-world situations, allowing you to gain valuable hands-on experience as well as use the presented solutions as the foundation for production implementation, dramatically reducing time to deployment.
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Installing Oracle Database 11g on Linux
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Installing Oracle Database 11g on Windows
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Exploring Your Database with Enterprise Manager Database Control
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Using Database Replay to Perform Real-World Testing
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Creating a Physical Standby Database
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Oracle by Example Series: Oracle Database 11g
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Oracle by Example Series: Oracle Database 10g
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Automating Installation of Oracle Database 10g and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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RAC LINKS

Biggest challenge in learning / understanding RAC is lack of hands on experience because of expensive hardware, network cards, interconnect and cluster file system. The following links cover step by step Oracle RAC installation and configuration
on single laptop/desktop using VMWare Server without investing anything extra on hardware (using two virtual machines, virtual network cards and virtual shared disk for Oracle RAC database shared files system ).

Download VMware Server (for Windows and Linux systems)
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Installing Oracle Database 10g on Windows by Using Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Automated Storage Management (ASM)
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Steps for configuring/building Oracle RAC Database on laptop/desktop machine (without investing any thing on hardware).
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Oracle 10g RAC installation using Unbreakable Linux
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Installing Oracle RAC 10g Release 1 on Linux x86
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Installation of Oracle 10g release 2 (10.2.0.1) RAC on Linux (CentOS 4) using VMware Server with no additional shared disk devices.
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Installing Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 on Linux x86
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Oracle 10g RAC On Windows 2003 Using VMware Server
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Install Oracle RAC 10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux Using VMware Server
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The Oracle-on-Linux Installation Menu
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Installing Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Cluster (RAC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3
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Convert a Single Instance Database to Oracle RAC 10g on RHEL3
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