Unplanned outages and downtime still result not only in major productivity losses, but also major financial losses. Along the same lines, if zero planned downtime and zero data loss are key to your IT environment and your business requirements, planning for those becomes very important, all while balancing between performance, high availability, and cost.

Oracle Database High Availability technologies will help you achieve these mission-critical goals, and are reflected in Oracle's best practices offerings of the Maximum Availability Architecture, or MAA.

We created three neat, short videos showcasing some typical use cases, and highlighting three important components (amongst many more) of MAA:

• Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
• Oracle Active Data Guard
• Oracle Flashback Technologies

Make sure to watch those videos here, and learn about challenges, and solutions, around High Availability database environments from a recent Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) survey.