By Peter Corrigan, Mark Gurry Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: September 1993 Pages: 642
The Oracle relational database management system is the most popular database system in use today. Organizations ranging from government agencies to small businesses, from large financial institutions to universities, use Oracle to make sense of their data. Running on computers as diverse as mainframes, minicomputers, workstations, PCs, and Macintoshes, Oracle provides virtually identical functions across machine boundaries. Oracle offers tremendous power and flexibility, but at some cost. Demands for fast response, particularly in online transaction processing systems, make performance a major issue. With more organizations downsizing and adopting client-server and distributed database approaches, performance tuning becomes all the more vital. This book pulls together the experiences of many Oracle system users and administrators who have learned how to tune their Oracle systems --running either RDBMS Version 6 or Version 7--to best advantage. It answers questions like: - "I've been waiting 30 minutes for a response to my query-- what's going on?"
- "My system administrator says our system is I/O-bound-- what can I do?"
- "Our application ran fine in testing, but the response is terrible now that we're in production--help!"
Too many organizations respond to performance problems by throwing money at the problems--either by buying larger and more expensive computers or by hiring expert consultants. But, whether you're a manager, a designer, a programmer, a database administrator, or a system administrator, there's a lot you can do on your own to dramatically increase the performance of your existing Oracle system. You may find that this book can save you the cost of a new machine; at the very least, it will save you a lot of headaches. |
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Basic Training -
Chapter 1 Turning Your iPad On and Off - What You’ll Be Using
- Turning On Your iPad
- Turning Off Your iPad
- Putting Your iPad to Sleep
- Putting Your iPad to Sleep Automatically
- Waking Up Your iPad from Sleep Mode
- Turning Airplane Mode On and Off (3G iPad Models Only)
- Additional Ideas for Turning Your iPad On and Off
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Chapter 2 Charging and Conserving Battery Power - What You’ll Be Using
- Recharging an iPad
- Turning Off Push Accounts
- Turning Off Location Services
- Monitoring Battery Life
- Turning Off Bluetooth
- Additional Ideas for Conserving Power
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Chapter 3 Using Your iPad’s Physical and Virtual Controls - What You’ll Be Using
- Viewing the Home Screen
- Adjusting the Volume
- Multitasking with the Home Button
- Configuring the Silent/Screen Rotation Lock Switch
- Muting the Volume or Locking the Screen Rotation Without the Side Switch
- Adjusting the Screen Brightness
- Additional Ideas for Controlling Your iPad
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Chapter 4 Controlling the iPad User Interface - What You’ll Be Using
- Using the Multi-Touch Screen
- Additional Ideas for Controlling Your iPad
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Chapter 5 Using and Customizing the Virtual Keyboard - What You’ll Be Using
- Displaying Different Virtual Keyboards
- Typing on a Virtual Keyboard
- Selecting, Copying, and Cutting Text
- Spellchecking
- Customizing the Virtual Keyboard
- Turning Off Audible Keyboard Clicks
- Typing Foreign Characters
- Additional Ideas for Using the Virtual Keyboard
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Making the Most of Your iPad -
Chapter 6 Customizing the Home Screen - What You’ll Be Using
- Rearranging Icons on the Home Screen
- Putting Apps on the Dock
- Modifying the Wallpaper
- Additional Ideas for Customizing Your Home Screen
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Chapter 7 Using Parental Controls - What You’ll Be Using
- Blocking iPad Features
- Filtering Content
- Disabling Restrictions
- Additional Ideas for Using Restrictions on Your iPad
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Chapter 8 Protecting Your Privacy - What You’ll Be Using
- Setting (or Removing) a Passcode
- Defining When to Ask for a Passcode
- Erasing Data After 10 Incorrect Passcodes
- Additional Ideas for Protecting Your iPad
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Chapter 9 Setting Up an Internet Connection - What You’ll Be Using
- Setting Up a Wi-Fi Connection
- Forgetting a Wi-Fi Network
- Connecting to a 3G Cellular Network
- Canceling (or Switching) a Cellular Data Plan
- Additional Ideas for Connecting to the Internet
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Chapter 10 Installing (and Uninstalling) Apps - What You’ll Be Using
- Finding Apps on Your iPad
- Installing an App
- Finding Apps in iTunes
- Updating Apps on the iPad
- Deleting Apps from the iPad
- Running iPhone Apps on the iPad
- Additional Ideas for Installing and Uninstalling Apps
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Getting on the Internet -
Chapter 11 Browsing with Safari - What You’ll Be Using
- Navigating Safari
- Searching in Safari
- Opening Multiple Web Pages
- Emailing a Web Page Link
- Copying a Graphic Image from a Web Page
- Printing a Web Page
- Additional Ideas for Browsing the Internet
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Chapter 12 Using Bookmarks with Safari - What You’ll Be Using
- Using the History Window
- Adding and Managing Bookmarks
- Saving a Website as a Home Screen Icon
- Creating Folders in the Bookmarks Window
- Additional Ideas for Bookmarking Favorite Websites
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Chapter 13 Setting Up an Email Account - What You’ll Be Using
- Setting Up an Email Account Automatically
- Setting Up an Email Account Manually
- Customizing Mail Accounts
- Additional Ideas for Setting Up and Customizing Email Accounts
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Chapter 14 Sending and Reading Email - What You’ll Be Using
- Reading Email
- Moving a Message to a Folder
- Replying to, Forwarding, or Printing an Email Message
- Writing a New Message
- Deleting Messages
- Searching Email
- Viewing Multiple Email Accounts
- Additional Ideas for Reading, Writing, and Organizing Messages
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Video, Music, Photos, and Ebooks -
Chapter 15 Transferring Songs, Videos, and Other Stuff to Your iPad - What You’ll Be Using
- Importing Files to iTunes on Your Computer
- Transferring Music to Your iPad
- Synchronizing Podcasts
- Transferring Movies and TV Shows to Your iPad
- Synchronizing Photos
- Importing Ebooks into Your iPad
- Synchronizing Contacts
- Synchronizing Appointments
- Synchronizing Mail, Notes, and Bookmarks
- Additional Ideas for Syncing Data
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Chapter 16 Shopping on iTunes and the iBookstore - What You’ll Be Using
- Shopping for Music, Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks
- Shopping for iBooks
- Additional Ideas for Shopping Online
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Chapter 17 Listening to Music and Other Audio Files - What You’ll Be Using
- Playing a Song in Different iPod Modes
- Choosing a Song
- Controlling Your Music
- Finding a Podcast, Audiobook, or iTunes U Course
- Searching for Any Audio File
- Additional Ideas for Listening to Audio Files
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Chapter 18 Watching Videos - What You’ll Be Using
- Choosing a Video File
- Viewing a Video File
- Choosing a YouTube Video
- Viewing a YouTube Video
- Searching for a YouTube Video
- Additional Ideas for Watching Videos
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Chapter 19 Reading Ebooks - What You’ll Be Using
- Opening (and Closing) an Ebook
- Turning the Pages of an Ebook
- Searching for Text
- Using Bookmarks
- Making Ebooks Easier to Read
- Additional Ideas for Reading Ebooks
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Chapter 20 Photos, Videos, and FaceTime - What You’ll Be Using
- Taking Pictures
- Using Photo Booth
- Setting Up FaceTime
- Making a FaceTime Call
- Additional Ideas for Using the iPad’s Cameras
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Chapter 21 Viewing, Using, and Sharing Photographs - What You’ll Be Using
- Viewing Pictures
- Navigating Through Pictures
- Creating a Slideshow
- Sending Pictures by Email
- Assigning a Picture to a Contact
- Viewing and Trimming Videos
- Additional Ideas for Using Your Pictures
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Organizing Yourself -
Chapter 22 Jotting Down Notes - What You’ll Be Using
- Typing a Note
- Creating New Notes
- Navigating Through Your Notes
- Sending a Note by Email
- Deleting a Note
- Additional Ideas for Typing Notes
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Chapter 23 Keeping Contact Information - What You’ll Be Using
- Viewing Contact Information
- Adding a New Contact
- Editing (or Deleting) a Contact
- Sending Contact Information by Email
- Sending Email to a Contact
- Getting Directions to a Contact
- Additional Ideas for Using Contacts
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Chapter 24 Using the Calendar - What You’ll Be Using
- Understanding Calendar Views
- Setting an Appointment
- Editing (or Deleting) an Appointment
- Searching for an Appointment
- Viewing and Managing Multiple Calendars
- Additional Ideas for Using Calendars
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Chapter 25 Using Maps - What You’ll Be Using
- Viewing a Map
- Changing the Appearance of a Map
- Finding Your Current Location
- Using the Compass
- Finding Places on a Map
- Bookmarking Favorite Locations
- Getting Directions
- Additional Ideas for Finding Places and Getting Directions with Maps
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Chapter 26 Searching Your iPad with Spotlight - What You’ll Be Using
- Searching with Spotlight
- Customizing Spotlight
- Additional Ideas for Searching with Spotlight
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Additional Tips -
Chapter 27 Making Your iPad Accessible - What You’ll Be Using
- Improving the Visual Quality of the Screen
- Turning On VoiceOver
- Turning On Closed Captioning and Mono Audio
- Turning Accessibility Features On and Off Rapidly
- Additional Ideas for Making Your iPad Accessible
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Chapter 28 Using Foreign Languages - What You’ll Be Using
- Switching the iPad’s Default Language
- Defining a Foreign-Language Virtual Keyboard
- Using a Foreign-Language Virtual Keyboard
- Additional Ideas for Using Foreign Languages on Your iPad
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Chapter 29 The Best iPad Apps - What You’ll Be Using
- Office Productivity Apps
- News and Information
- Painting and Drawing Apps
- Entertainment Apps
- Additional Ideas for Using Apps
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Chapter 30 Troubleshooting Your iPad - What You’ll Be Using
- An App Is Frozen
- Your iPad Runs Sluggishly or Freezes
- iTunes Won’t Recognize Your iPad
- Your iPad Cannot Access the Internet
- Restoring Your iPad
- Resetting Everything
- Resetting Location Services
- Finding a Stolen or Lost iPad
- Additional Ideas for Troubleshooting Your iPad
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- Title:
- ORACLE Performance Tuning
- By:
- Peter Corrigan, Mark Gurry
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- Print:
- September 1993
- Pages:
- 642
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-048-4
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- 1-56592-048-1
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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 animal featured on the cover of ORACLE Performance Tuning is the honeybee, appreciated worldwide as a pollinator of crops and producer of honey. Honeybees are highly social creatures. A single hive or colony usually contains one queen (the only fertile female), fifty- to sixty-thousand workers (all sterile females), and a few hundred drones (the only males). Workers are responsible for locating and collecting the pollen, nectar, water, and resin necessary to the hive. When a worker locates such a source, she returns to the hive and performs a beedance. This dance communicates precise instructions--both distance and direction--enabling other workers to make a beeline to the booty. It takes about ten million such worker-trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. Workers also build and maintain the hive, and feed the colony. There is no biological difference between female bees at birth. Queens are simply given larger cells in which to develop, and are allowed to continue their privileged diet of "royal jelly" long after the other developing bees are cut off from the delicacy. Royal jelly is a secretion generated from the glands of young workers. Worker larvae are nourished by it during their first six days of existence, and drones eight, while the queen gets it until she is fully grown. The first thing a new queen will do upon emergence from her cell is deliver a death sting to all the other larval queens. (The previous queen will have vacated the hive with a small entourage a few days before.) After a week or two, the new queen will mate with a few drones (who die immediately after copulation). The rest of the drones are then put out of the hive to starve. The queen returns to the hive and begins her job of laying over a thousand eggs a day. Honeybees are native to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In Ancient Greece, honeybees were associated with a famous oracle. The regular god of prophecy was Apollo, who presided over the greatest of Greek oracles, at Delphi. Apollo gave his tricky brother, Hermes, a piece of the action on a smaller shrine farther down the slopes of the same mountain, Mt. Parnassus, where the prophecy was given by three honeybee-maidens, all sisters. Apollo gave them the ability to speak the truth, which they willingly did if they were fed honey and honeycombs; if not, they buzzed and buzzed and told only lies. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them. ... Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire UNIX bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with QuarkXPress 3.1 using the ITC Garamond font. The inside layout was formatted in FrameMaker 3.1 by Mike Sierra and Lar Kaufman using ITC Garamond Light and ITC Garamond Book fonts, and was designed by Edie Freedman. The figures were created in Aldus Freehand 3.1 by Chris Reilley and Michelle Willey. The colophon was written by Michael Kalantarian with help from Lenny Muellner. |
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