Preface

Knowledge is only valuable when shared.

The three main responsibilities for a successful DBA are to ensure the availability, recoverability, and performance of any database that the DBA is accountable for. This book will focus on the recoverability set of skills, and will also include some tips and ideas regarding availability. All examples showed in the book are executed over Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 and Oracle Database 12.1.0.1 (also known as Oracle 12c), please be aware of these specific versions to ensure that you will be able to reproduce the same results, you will see reflected in this book.

To ensure the recoverability of any database, a DBA needs to have a strong backup and recovery skills set; this knowledge is essential for ...

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