Oracle Essentials : Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 (2nd Edition)
Greenwald, Rick; Stem, Jonathan; Stackowiak, Robert; Stern, Jonathan; O'Reilly & Associates
Language: English
Published by O'Reilly, 2001
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- Title
- Oracle Essentials : Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 (2nd Edition)
- Author
- Greenwald, Rick; Stem, Jonathan; Stackowiak, Robert; Stern, Jonathan; O'Reilly & Associates
- Publisher
- O'Reilly
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0596001797
- ISBN 13
- 9780596001797
"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
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 been a principal author of ten 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 in a Nutshell, Rick's books include Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and Oracle8 (principal author with Robert Stackowiak and Jonathan Stern, O'Reilly & Associates, 2001), 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).
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) Special Edition: 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) Administering Exchange Server, principal author with Walter Glenn (1999) Robert Stackowiak has worked for 20 years in IT industry related roles that have included software development, management of software development, systems engineering, sales and sales consulting, and business development. He currently is recognized worldwide as a field sales expert in data warehousing at Oracle, and previously was well recognized for his work at IBM's RISC System/6000 Division, Harris Computer Systems, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Bob has spoken at numerous computer related conferences and has conducted briefings with companies based around the world. His papers regarding data warehousing and computer and software technology have appeared in publications such as The Data Warehousing Institute's Journal of Data Warehousing, Informix Tech Notes, and AIXcellence Magazine.
Jonathan Stern has over 11 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, Parallel Server, high availability, data warehousing, OLTP, object-relational databases, N-tier architectures, and emerging trends such as Java and CORBA. He is the Central USA Technical Team Leader at Ariba, Inc., the leading vendor of electronic commerce solutions for strategic procurement. 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. Jonathan 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.
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