High Availability Guide for DB2 (paperback)
Published on 21. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7686-8220-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book clearly addresses all aspects of minimizing system failure. From basic backup and recovery concepts all the way up to advanced recovery tuning and configurations for High Availability and Disaster Recovery, this book has unique coverage not found elsewhere. The day-to-day responsibilities of the reader would range from architecting, planning and configuring highly available enterprise database systems to tuning and monitoring existing systems to maintain maximum availability. After reading this book, database administrators will be able to setup, tune and monitor highly available DB2 systems and have an understanding of how to choose the availability option that best meets their needs.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Armonk
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7686-8220-5 (9780768682205)
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Persons
CHRIS EATON is an IBM Product Manager for DB2, responsible for planning and strategy for DB2's future direction. He has worked with DB2 in roles ranging from customer service analyst to development manager, and now spends much of his time working with customers in high availability environments. ENZO CIALINI is responsible for managing the DB2 UDB System Verification Test Department, with a focus on High Availability. He has authored many papers on DB2 UDB high availability configurations. Eaton and Cialini have each worked with DB2 at IBM's Toronto Laboratory for over a decade.
Content
Preface.
1. Introduction.
Types of Outages. Cost of Outages. Types of Recovery Processes Covered in this Book.
2. Minimizing Unplanned Outages.
Recovery Processing. How Database Logging Works. Types of Logging. Crash Recovery. Backup Processing. Database Recovery. Summary.
3. Minimizing Unplanned Outages.
Increasing Availability During Planned Outages.
4. Setting Up a Standby Database.
What is a Standby Database? Recap of Log Archiving and Roll Forward Recovery. Log Shipping to a Standby Database. Other Considerations for Log Shipping. Replication as a Standby Database. Summarizing your Standby Database Options.
5. Disk-Based Availability Options.
Disk-Based Availability Options.
6. Setting up Failover Software.
Failover Software.
7.Using Shared-Disk for Greater Availability.
Using Shared Disks for Greater Availability.
Index.
1. Introduction.
Types of Outages. Cost of Outages. Types of Recovery Processes Covered in this Book.
2. Minimizing Unplanned Outages.
Recovery Processing. How Database Logging Works. Types of Logging. Crash Recovery. Backup Processing. Database Recovery. Summary.
3. Minimizing Unplanned Outages.
Increasing Availability During Planned Outages.
4. Setting Up a Standby Database.
What is a Standby Database? Recap of Log Archiving and Roll Forward Recovery. Log Shipping to a Standby Database. Other Considerations for Log Shipping. Replication as a Standby Database. Summarizing your Standby Database Options.
5. Disk-Based Availability Options.
Disk-Based Availability Options.
6. Setting up Failover Software.
Failover Software.
7.Using Shared-Disk for Greater Availability.
Using Shared Disks for Greater Availability.
Index.