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Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g (Essentials)
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by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, and Jonathan Stern
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Paperback: 406 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 4 edition November 1, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596514549
ISBN-13: 978-0596514549
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
Product Description
Oracle is an enormous system, with myriad technologies, options, and releases. Most users-even experienced developers and database administrators-find it difficult to get a handle on the full scope of the Oracle database. And, as each new Oracle version is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies. The latest challenge is Oracle Database 11g.
This book distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. It contains chapters on: - Oracle products, options, data structures, and overall architecture for Oracle Database 11g, as well as earlier releases (Oracle Database 10g, Oracle9i, and Oracle8i)
- Installing, running, managing, monitoring, networking, and tuning Oracle, including Enterprise Manager (EM) and Oracle's self-tuning and management capabilities; and using Oracle security, auditing, and compliance (a new chapter in this edition)
- Multiuser concurrency, data warehouses, distributed databases, online transaction processing (OLTP), high availability, and hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, clusters, NUMA, and grid computing)
- Features beyond the Oracle database: Oracle Application Express, Fusion Middleware (including Oracle Application Server), and database SOA support as a Web services provider
The latest Oracle Database 11g features: query result set caching, Automatic Memory Management, the Real Application Testing, Advanced Compression, Total Recall, and Active Data Guard Option Options, changes to the OLAP Option (transparently accessed and managed as materialized views), the Flashback transaction command, transparent data encryption, the Support Workbench (and diagnosability infrastructure), and partitioning enhancements (including interval and new composite types)
For new Oracle users, DBAs, developers, and managers, Oracle Essentials provides an invaluable, all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features and technologies, including the just-released Oracle Database 11g features. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation, you'll find that this compact book is the one you turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.
"Oracle Essentials gives a clear explanation of the key database concepts and architecture underlying the Oracle database. It's a great reference for anyone doing development or management of Oracle databases."
--Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Database Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation
About The Author
Rick Greenwald has been active in the world of computer software for nearly two decades, including stints with Data General, Cognos, and Gupta. He is currently an analyst with Oracle Corporation. He has published six books and countless articles on a variety of technical topics, and has spoken at conferences and training sessions across six continents.
Robert Stackowiak is Senior Director of E-Business Intelligence for Oracle Corporation's Enterprise Technology Center. He works with Oracle's largest customers in North America, providing insight into the company's products and data warehousing strategy. In addition, he frequently assists Oracle Corporate in developing product strategy and training. Articles written by Bob have appeared in publications including The Journal of Data Warehousing, Informix Tech Notes, and AIXcellence Magazine.
Jonathan Stern has more than 13 years of IT experience, including senior positions in consulting, systems architecture, and technical sales. He has authored papers and presented at internal and external conferences on topics such as scaling with Oracle's dynamic parallelism and the role of reorganizing segments in an Oracle database. He is the Technical Director at Ariba, Inc., the leading vendor of value chain solutions for electronic commerce.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is for people of all levels of Oracle experience and includes database administrators, system administrators, and application developers. Even though there is some introductory material that more experienced people might be tempted to skip over, it is probably best to go through the book from beginning to end just to make sure you don't miss some minute point of Oracle. It does not try to teach database theory, though. You need to be familiar with that in a general sense before you read this book. The main purpose of this fourth edition is to add information relevant to the newest release, Oracle Database 11g. Appendix A is handy in that it contains, in a condensed form, what is new for 11g. The book manage to concentrate on the most important Oracle issues and principles. It isn't possible to write one book that encompasses everything about Oracle, particularly syntax details, so you'll need to refer to Oracle documentation for complete details. The following is the table of contents of the book, which is currently not included in the product description: Chapter 1. Introducing Oracle Section 1.1. The Evolution of the Relational Database Section 1.2. The Oracle Database Family Section 1.3. Summary of Oracle Database Features Section 1.4. Database Application Development Features Section 1.5. Database Connection Features Section 1.6. Distributed Database Features Section 1.7. Data Movement Features Section 1.8. Database Performance Features Section 1.9. Database Management Features Section 1.10. Database Security Features Section 1.11. Oracle Development Tools Section 1.12. Embedded Databases Chapter 2. Oracle Architecture Section 2.1. Databases and Instances Section 2.2. Deploying Physical Components Section 2.3. Instance Memory and Processes Section 2.4. The Data Dictionary Chapter 3. Installing and Running Oracle Section 3.1. Installing Oracle Section 3.2. Creating a Database Section 3.3. Configuring Oracle Net Section 3.4. Starting Up the Database Section 3.5. Shutting Down the Database Section 3.6. Accessing a Database Section 3.7. Oracle at Work Chapter 4. Oracle Data Structures Section 4.1. Datatypes Section 4.2. Basic Data Structures Section 4.3. Additional Data Structures Section 4.4. Extended Logic for Data Section 4.5. Data Design Section 4.6. Constraints Section 4.7. Triggers Section 4.8. Query Optimization Section 4.9. Understanding the Execution Plan Section 4.10. SQL Advisors Section 4.11. Data Dictionary Tables Chapter 5. Managing Oracle Section 5.1. Manageability Features Section 5.2. Oracle Enterprise Manager Section 5.3. Fragmentation and Reorganization Section 5.4. Backup and Recovery Section 5.5. Working with Oracle Support Chapter 6. Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance Section 6.1. Security Section 6.2. Auditing Section 6.3. Compliance Chapter 7. Oracle Performance Section 7.1. Performance Tuning Basics Section 7.2. Oracle and Disk I/O Resources Section 7.3. Oracle and Parallelism Section 7.4. Oracle and Memory Resources Section 7.5. Oracle and CPU Resources Section 7.6. Database Resource Manager Chapter 8. Oracle Multiuser Concurrency Section 8.1. Basics of Concurrent Access Section 8.2. Oracle and Concurrent User Access Section 8.3. Oracle's Isolation Levels Section 8.4. Oracle Concurrency Features Section 8.5. How Oracle Handles Locking Section 8.6. Concurrent Access and Performance Section 8.7. Workspaces Chapter 9. Oracle and Transaction Processing Section 9.1. OLTP Basics Section 9.2. Oracle's OLTP Heritage Section 9.3. Architectures for OLTP Section 9.4. Oracle Features for OLTP Section 9.5. High Availability Section 9.6. Oracle Streams and Advanced Queuing Section 9.7. Object Technologies and Distributed Components Chapter 10. Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Section 10.1. Business Intelligence Basics Section 10.2. Data Warehouse Design Section 10.3. Query Optimization Section 10.4. Analytics, OLAP, and Data Mining in the Database Section 10.5. Managing the Data Warehouse Section 10.6. Other Software for the Data Warehouse Section 10.7. The Metadata Challenge Section 10.8. Best Practices Chapter 11. Oracle and High Availability Section 11.1. What Is High Availability? Section 11.2. System Failure Section 11.3. Protecting Against System Failure Section 11.4. Recovering from Failures Section 11.5. Complete Site Failure Section 11.6. Data Redundancy Solutions Section 11.7. Rolling Upgrades Chapter 12. Oracle and Hardware Architecture Section 12.1. System Basics Section 12.2. Uniprocessor Systems Section 12.3. Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems Section 12.4. Clusters Section 12.5. Non-Uniform Memory Access Systems Section 12.6. Grid Computing Section 12.7. Disk and Storage Technology Section 12.8. Which Platform Deployment Solution? Chapter 13. Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data Section 13.1. Accessing Multiple Databases As a Single Entity Section 13.2. Moving Data Between Distributed Systems Chapter 14. Oracle Extended Datatypes Section 14.1. Object-Oriented Development Section 14.2. Extensibility Features and Options Section 14.3. Using the Extensibility Framework in Oracle Chapter 15. Beyond the Oracle Database Section 15.1. Application Express Section 15.2. Oracle Fusion Middleware Section 15.3. Oracle SOA Suite Appendix A. What's New in This Book for Oracle Database 11g Section A.1. Introducing Oracle Section A.2. Oracle Architecture Section A.3. Installing and Running Oracle Section A.4. Data Structures Section A.5. Managing Oracle Section A.6. Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance Section A.7. Oracle Performance Section A.8. Oracle Multiuser Concurrency Section A.9. Oracle and Transaction Processing Section A.10. Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Section A.11. Oracle and High Availability Section A.12. Oracle and Hardware Architecture Section A.13. Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data Section A.14. Oracle Extended Datatypes Section A.15. Beyond the Oracle Database Appendix B. Additional Resources Section B.1. Web Sites Section B.2. Books and Oracle Documentation
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