Oracle8: A Beginner's Guide (Oracle Series) - Softcover

Abbey, Michael; Corey, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078823935 ISBN 13: 9780078823930

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1997

Synopsis

The single best starting point for a new Oracle user or manager, Oracle8: A Beginner's Guide offers an excellent introduction to the database and its most critical products. This edition is fully revised to cover Oracle8 and emphasizes how Oracle operates on Windows NT. Covers all key elements of Oracle8, including startup, developer basics, advanced topics, and DBA issues. Updated product information and new coverage on important topics for beginners, including object-oriented databases issues, data warehousing, and Oracle's network computing architecture.

About this title

About the Authors

Michael S. Abbey (Ottawa, CN) has been using Oracle for 15 years, has co-authored seven books for Oracle Press, and has given presentations on Oracle throughout North America and Europe. Michael leads the Pythian Groups dbaSource team in Ottawa, Canada, which provides Internet-based Oracle DBA support. He has also been a volunteer in Oracle user groups, facilitating delivery of IOUGAs IOUG-A Live! from 1997 to 2000.

Michael Corey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ntirety L.L.C. (www.ntirety.com) located in Newton, Massachusetts, Ntirety specializes in Remote Database Administration. Prior to founding Ntirety Mike co-founded Database Technologies, the first consulting company on the East Coast to specialize in Oracle and other relational databases. Under Mike's direction, Database Technologies experienced triple-digit growth. In 1997 Deloitte & Touche, and Hale and Dorr recognized Database Technologies as the fastest growing Technology Company in New England and the 51st fastest growing hi-tech company in the United States. Mr. Corey is a recognized expert on Relational Databases and Data Warehousing.  He has written a number of articles and books. Mike is a frequent guest speaker at technology conferences throughout the world.In addition to being an entrepreneur and writer, Mr. Corey is a founding member of a number of Oracle groups, including Oracle User Resource, Oracle World Wide Affinity Program and the Oracle Presidents Council.  He is a past president of the International Oracle User Group, Northeast Oracle Users Group,.  He is also a past member of the Board of Directors for the International Oracle User Group Americas and a member of the Microsoft Corporation Data Warehousing Advisory Group.Mr. Corey has a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Bentley College, in Waltham, Massachusetts.  He has also attended the Entrepreneurial Management program at Babson College in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998.Feel free to contact Mike at michael.corey@ntirety.com.

From the Back Cover

At last a concise, comprehensive survey of Oracle8 for novice users!

Begin your exploration of Oracle with expanded coverage of the revolutionary new Oracle8. Oracle 8: A Beginner's Guide will introduce you to the essential concepts behind the latest version of this complex and powerful database management system and will teach you the basics of setting up, querying, and managing your database.

In this official guide, authorized by Oracle Corporation and written by two renowned members of the Oracle community, database experts Michael Abbey and Michael J. Corey discuss:

-Oracle8's new object environment and object-oriented programming concepts, data warehousing, and Oracle's Network Computing Architecture with an emphasis on Windows NT
-Basic to advanced SQL, and the principles of database design
-Oracle tools, showing you how to create tables; how to add search through, query, and sort data; and how to generate reports
-Management of your database and how to unravel the mysteries of tuning the system for optimal performance
-Developer/2000 Forms, Reports, and SQL Loader, as well as provide a guide to Oracle's latest products
-Oracle Enterprise manager and how it fits so well into the database administrator's toolset
-Key information on Oracle 8's object-relational technology and the Network Computing Architecture

If you're looking for the single best introduction to Oracle8 Server and the key products related to it, look no further than Oracle8: A Beginner's Guide.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0078823935
• ISBN 13: 9780078823930
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 767