Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: February 2004 Pages: 400
An enormous system comprising myriad technologies, options, and releases, Oracle's complexities have spawned numerous areas of specialization. For each area of specialization there are equally specialized how-to books and manuals. O'Reilly's Oracle Essentials claims a unique place among these books. Rather than focusing on one area, the book explains the foundational concepts of the Oracle technology and the core technical and business aspects of using it. The new edition of this classic book, Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g, distills a vast amount of knowledge into an easy-to-read volume covering every aspect of the Oracle database. Readers of all levels will learn about Oracle's features and technologies, including the product line, architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, tuning, and much more. Featuring focused text, abundant illustrations, and helpful hints, the new edition offers a valuable overview of Oracle's Database 10g--the industry's first database to support grid computing. Recent releases such as Oracle 9i and 8i are also covered. The book contains chapters on: - Oracle products, options, and overall architecture for Oracle 10g and prior recent releases
- Installing and running Oracle: how to configure, start up, and shut down the database, and various networking issues
- Oracle data structures, datatypes, and ways of extending datatypes, with an introduction to Oracle objects (e.g., tables, views, indexes)
- Managing Oracle: security, the Oracle Enterprise Manager, fragmentation and reorganization, and backup and recovery
- Oracle performance: characteristics of disk, memory, and CPU tuning
- Multi-user concurrency, online transaction processing (OLTP), and high availability
- Hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, MPP, NUMA) and their impact on Oracle
- Data warehousing and distributed databases
- Network deployment: using Oracle as an Internet computing platform and for grid computing
- What's new in Oracle 10g: a summary of the database changes described in the book
Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g was written for anyone whose job involves managing or building systems using Oracle DBMS technology or working with staff that uses Oracle technology. This book is the perfect all-in-one source for understanding the complexities and capabilities of Oracle. |
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Chapter 1 Introducing Oracle -
The Evolution of the Relational Database -
The Oracle Family -
Summary of Oracle Features -
Database Application Development Features -
Database Connection Features -
Distributed Database Features -
Data Movement Features -
Performance Features -
Database Management Features -
Oracle Developer Suite -
Oracle Lite -
Chapter 2 Oracle Architecture -
Instances and Databases -
The Components of a Database -
The Components of an Instance -
The Data Dictionary -
Chapter 3 Installing and Running Oracle -
Installing Oracle -
Creating a Database -
Configuring Oracle Net -
Starting Up the Database -
Shutting Down the Database -
Accessing a Database -
Oracle at Work -
Chapter 4 Data Structures -
Datatypes -
Basic Data Structures -
Additional Data Structures -
Data Design -
Constraints -
Triggers -
Query Optimization -
Understanding the Execution Plan -
SQL Tuning Advisor -
Data Dictionary Tables -
Chapter 5 Managing Oracle -
Management and Enterprise Manager -
Oracle Database 10g Self-Tuning and Management -
Implementing Security -
Fragmentation and Reorganization -
Backup and Recovery -
Working with Oracle Support -
Chapter 6 Oracle Performance -
Performance Tuning Basics -
Oracle and Disk I/O Resources -
Oracle and Parallelism -
Oracle and Memory Resources -
Oracle and CPU Resources -
Database Resource Manager -
Monitoring -
Real Application Clusters and Performance -
Chapter 7 Multiuser Concurrency -
Basics of Concurrent Access -
Oracle and Concurrent User Access -
Oracle's Isolation Levels -
Oracle Concurrency Features -
How Oracle Handles Locking -
Concurrent Access and Performance -
Workspaces -
Chapter 8 Oracle and Transaction Processing -
OLTP Basics -
Oracle's OLTP Heritage -
Architectures for OLTP -
Oracle Features for OLTP -
High Availability -
Oracle Advanced Queuing and Streams -
Object Technologies and Distributed Components -
Chapter 9 Oracle and Data Warehousing -
Business Intelligence Basics -
Data Warehouse Design -
Query Optimization -
Analytics, OLAP, and Data Mining in the Database -
Managing the Data Warehouse -
Other Data Warehouse Software -
The Metadata Challenge -
Best Practices -
Chapter 10 Oracle and High Availability -
What Is High Availability? -
System Crashes -
Protecting Against System Crashes -
Recovering from Disasters -
Complete Site Failure -
Data Redundancy Solutions -
Chapter 11 Oracle and Hardware Architecture -
System Basics -
Uniprocessor Systems -
Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems -
Clusters -
Massively Parallel Processing Systems -
Non-Uniform Memory Access Systems -
Grid Computing -
Disk Technology -
Which Platform Deployment Solution? -
Chapter 12 Distributed Databases and Distributed Data -
Accessing Multiple Databases as a Single Entity -
Two-Phase Commits -
Moving Data Between Distributed Systems -
Advanced Queuing -
Oracle Streams -
Chapter 13 Extending Oracle Datatypes -
Object-Oriented Development -
Extensibility Features and Options -
Using the Extensibility Framework in Oracle -
Chapter 14 Network Deployment Models -
The Impact of the Internet -
The Oracle Database and the Internet -
Oracle Application Server -
Grid Computing -
Appendix A What's New in This Book for Oracle Database10g -
Chapter 1, Introducing Oracle -
Chapter 2, Oracle Architecture -
Chapter 3, Installing and Running Oracle -
Chapter 4, Data Structures -
Chapter 5, Managing Oracle -
Chapter 6, Oracle Performance -
Chapter 7, Multiuser Concurrency -
Chapter 8, Oracle and Transaction Processing -
Chapter 9, Oracle and Data Warehousing -
Chapter 10, Oracle and High Availability -
Chapter 11, Oracle and Hardware Architecture -
Chapter 12, Distributed Databases and Distributed Data -
Chapter 13, Extending Oracle Datatypes -
Chapter 14, Network Deployment Models -
Appendix B Additional Resources -
Web Sites -
Books and Oracle Documentation -
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- Title:
- Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition
- By:
- Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- February 2004
- Ebook:
- February 2009
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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 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). View Rick Greenwald's full profile page. -
Robert Stackowiak 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. View Robert Stackowiak's full profile page. -
Jonathan Stern 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. View Jonathan Stern's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 10g are cicadas. There are about 1,500 species of cicada. In general, cicadas are large insects with long thin wings that are perched above an inch-long abdomen. Their heads are also large and contain three eyes and a piercing and sucking mechanism with which to extrude sap from trees. Cicadas are known for their characteristic shrill buzz, which is actually the male?s mating song, one of the loudest known insect noises. Cicadas emerge from the ground in the spring or summer, molt, then shed their skin in the form of a shell. They stay near trees and plants, where they live for 4 to 6 weeks with the sole purpose of mating. The adult insects then die, and their young hatch and burrow into the ground. They attach to tree roots and feed off the sap for 4 to 17 years, after which time they emerge and continue the mating cycle. Cicadas have one of the longest life spans of any insect; the most common species is the periodical cicada, which lives underground for 13 to 17 years. Reg Aubry was the production editor and proofreader for Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 10g. Genevieve d'Entremont, Marlowe Shaeffer, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. John Bickelhaupt wrote the index. Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is an original 19th-century engraving from Cuvier's Animals. The cover layout was produced by Emma Colby with QuarkXPress 4.1 using the ITC Garamond font. David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Julie Hawks to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read, using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Nicole Arigo. |
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