Oracle Essentials – Oracle9i, Oracle8i, & Oracle8 2e: Oracle9i, Orcle8i and Oracle8 - Softcover

Greenwald, Rick; Stem, Jonathan; Stackowiak, Robert; Stern, Jonathan; O'Reilly & Associates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596001797 ISBN 13: 9780596001797

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2001

Synopsis

The second edition of O'Reilly's bestselling "Oracle Essentials has been updated to include the latest Oracle release, Oracle9"i.

"Oracle Essentials distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle's myriad technologies and releases into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. Oracle9"i promises to be an even more significant upgrade than Oracle8"i, offering such major features as Real Application Clusters, flashback queries, Oracle personalization, clickstream intelligence, and Oracle Database Cache and Web Cache; it also promises significant improvements in Oracle's business intelligence, XML integration, high availability, and management capabilities. The book includes overviews of these features, as well as the new Oracle9"I" Application Server (Oracle9"iAS) and Oracle9"i Portal.

The book contains chapters on:

Oracle products, options, and overall architecture for Oracle9"i and other recent releasesInstalling and running Oracle: creating databases, configuring Net8 (known as Oracle Net in Oracle9"i), starting up and shutting down OracleOracle data structures, datatypes, and ways of extending datatypesManaging Oracle: security, the Oracle Enterprise Manager, fragmentation and reorganization, and backup and recoveryOracle networking, monitoring, and tuningMulti-user concurrency, online transaction processing (OLTP), and high availabilityHardware architectures (e.g., SMP, MPP, NUMA) and their impact on OracleData warehousing and distributed databasesOracle9"i, Oracle8"i, and the Web, including the latest Java, web, and XML technologies, interMedia, Oracle9"i" Application Server, and Oracle9"i Portal

For new Oracleusers, DBAs, developers, and managers, "Oracle Essentials is an all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features and technologies, including the just-released Oracle9"i features. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation, this compact book is the one you'll turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.

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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. In addition to Oracle Essentials, Rick's books include Oracle Power Objects Developer's Guide (principal author with Kasu Sista and Richard Finklestein, Oracle Press, 1995); Mastering Oracle Power Objects (principal author with Robert Hoskins, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996); Using Oracle Web Server (principal author with many others, Que Publishing, 1997); The Oracle WebDB Bible (principal author with Jim Milbery, IDG Books Worldwide, 1999); and Administering Exchange Server (principal author with Walter Glenn, Microsoft Press, 1999). 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. Prior to joining Oracle in 1996, Robert was the Decision Support Segment Manager in IBM's RISC System/6000 Division. There, he met with IBM's largest customers throughout North America who were implementing RS/6000s and the IBM RS/6000 SP. He also previously worked as a Senior Field Analyst at Harris Computer Systems and as Chief of Programming at the St. Paul District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 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 in-depth experience with the Oracle RDBMS across all major open systems hardware and operating systems, covering tuning, scaling and parallelism, Oracle Parallel Server, high availability, data warehousing, OLTP, object-relational databases, N-tier architectures, and emerging trends such as Java and CORBA. 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. Jonathan is the Technical Director at Ariba, Inc., the leading vendor of value chain solutions for electronic commerce. Previously, he led a team of highly experienced database specialists at Oracle Corporation, providing technical depth and strategic assistance to Oracle's largest customers in the North Central USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0596001797
• ISBN 13: 9780596001797
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364