GoldenGate Essentials

"GoldenGate Essentials"
GoldenGate Essentials provides a comprehensive and practical guide to mastering Oracle GoldenGate, the industry-leading technology for real-time data integration and replication across complex IT landscapes. Beginning with a clear exploration of GoldenGate's architecture, core processes, and foundational concepts, the book delivers a structured approach to deploying, optimizing, and managing enterprise replication solutions. Readers will benefit from thorough coverage of process flows-from Extract and Replicat operations to fault-tolerant deployments, modern microservices architectures, and robust security configurations-making this an indispensable reference for database administrators, architects, and data integration specialists.
Spanning installation, configuration, and environment preparation, the book details essential planning for both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, covering sizing, upgrades, file system layout, and modern container ecosystems. Advanced chapters delve into extract and replicat tuning, parameter customization, handling of large and special data types, and sophisticated filtering and transformation techniques-ensuring accuracy, flexibility, and resilience in data movement. Heterogeneous replication scenarios are explained with practical advice on cross-database platforms, encoding, big data integration, and real-time streaming, empowering professionals to address today's multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Recognizing the critical importance of data integrity, compliance, and operational excellence, GoldenGate Essentials also addresses transactional consistency, conflict management, performance tuning, comprehensive monitoring, and troubleshooting with diagnostic best practices. The book concludes with forward-looking insights on GoldenGate's evolution, from cloud-native deployment to integration with CI/CD, DataOps, and emerging analytics pipelines. With actionable examples and strategies throughout, this essential volume equips practitioners to design and operate robust, scalable replication architectures at the heart of modern enterprise data strategies.