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Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide

By : John P Jeffries, John P Jeffries
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Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide

By: John P Jeffries, John P Jeffries

Overview of this book

Data replication is an important part of any database system that is growing due to today's demand for real-time reporting and regulatory requirements. GoldenGate has recently become Oracle's strategic real-time data replication solution. Until now, very little has been written about how to implement GoldenGate in a production enterprise environment where performance, scalability, and data integrity are paramount. Your days of dismay over the lack of documentation over Oracle GoldenGate are over. Welcome to Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide – a comprehensive practical book, which will deliver answers to your questions in a clear, concise style, allowing you to progress effectively in a timeline-driven environment. Based on the author's own experience, this long awaited GoldenGate administration book has all that is required to install, design, configure, and tune data replication solutions suited to every environment. Be the first to master GoldenGate's power and flexibility by reading this unique hands-on implementation companion. Systems need to send data from one system to another in a timely manner to satisfy the ever-increasing need for speed. Regardless of whether you are a novice or an expert – or someone in between – this book will guide you through all the steps necessary to build a high-performance GoldenGate solution on Oracle11gR1. Expert users can dive into key topic areas such as performance tuning or troubleshooting, while novice users can step through the early installation and configuration chapters, later progressing to the advanced chapters. This book is more than an implementation guide. It offers detailed real-life examples, encouraging additional thought and discussion by going beyond the manual. With Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide in hand, you'll be designing, installing, and configuring high-performance solutions using GoldenGate in less time than you can say "replicate"
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle GoldenGate 11 Implementer's guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
GGSCI Commands
GoldenGate Installed Components
The Future of Oracle GoldenGate
Index

Oracle GoldenGate evolution


GoldenGate Software Inc was founded in 1995. Originating in San Francisco, the company was named after the famous Golden Gate Bridge by its founders, Eric Fish and Todd Davidson. The tried and tested product that emerged quickly became very popular within the financial industry. Originally designed for the fault tolerant Tandem computers, the resilient and fast data replication solution was in demand. The banks initially used GoldenGate software in their ATM networks for sending transactional data from high street machines to mainframe central computers. The data integrity and guaranteed zero data loss is obviously paramount and plays a key factor. The key architectural properties of the product are as follows:

  • Data is sent in "real time" with sub-second speed.

  • Supports heterogeneous environments across different database and hardware types. "Transaction aware" —maintaining its read-consistent and referential integrity between source and target systems.

  • High performance with low impact; able to move large volumes of data very efficiently while maintaining very low lag times and latency.

  • Flexible modular architecture.

  • Reliable and extremely resilient to failure and data loss. No single point of failure or dependencies, and easy to recover.

Oracle Corporation acquired GoldenGate Software in September 2009. Today there are more than 500 customers around the world using GoldenGate technology for over 4000 solutions, realizing over $100 million in revenue for Oracle.