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Oracle Database 10g New Features: Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning and Administration By: Mike Ault, Madhu Tumma, Daniel Liu, Don Burleson For those database administrators intending to upgrade or those who need to know the new features that will affect the entire Oracle database world, this book relates all of the features of this new database. The complete details of the database's new features, including database management and administration enhancements, are discussed. Improvements and additions to security, architecture, Internet features, real application clusters, and performance are also detailed.

Oracle Database 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and Data Guard By: Matthew Hart, Scott Jesse Attain real solutions for current availability challenges. Based on a "DBA-centric" approach to High Availability, Oracle Database 10g High Availability concentrates on explaining Oracle Database 10g technologies and practices to database administrators, covering general availability, real application clusters (RAC), disaster planning and recovery, and distributed database solutions. Hardware and application needs are also taken into account. While Oracle Database 10g is the main focus, many of the options discussed are available in earlier database releases. Organized to provide conceptual understanding of High Availability, included are "HA Workshops", step-by-step instructions to get you through certain implementations, plus real-world inspired case studies.

Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration By: Wim Coekaerts, Edward Whalen (Publisher) Oracle's Mr. Linux details everything from installing the OS (Red Hat and United Linux) to installing the database to debugging and troubleshooting to performance, availability, and scalability. Wim is the Director of Linux Engineering at Oracle.

Database Performance Tuning and Optimization By: Sitansu S. Mittra Provides comprehensive coverage of database performance tuning and optimization using Oracle 8i (and a glimpse into 9i). Subjects covered include performance tuning methodology, tuning conceptual level of a database, internal level of an Oracle database, tuning of disk resident data structures, tuning of memory resident data structures, Oracle utility for tuning and optimization, optimization of the external level of a database, query tuning and optimization under Oracle 8i, special features of Oracle 8i and a glimpse into Oracle 9i, tuning the data warehouse at all levels, and web-based database applications.

High-Performance Oracle: Proven Methods for Achieving Optimum Performance and Availability By: Geoff Ingram Geoff Ingram explains why performance needs to be addressed right from the design stage, and why it needs to cover the entire system, not just the database.

Oracle9i DBA 101 By: Marlene Theriault, Rachel Carmichael, James Viscusi Ideal for those new to Oracle technology, this introductory guide explains in easy-to-follow detail the day-to-day duties of a database administrator (DBA), as well as essential database installation, monitoring, and managing techniques. The book covers all the new features of Oracle9i.

Oracle DBA Automation Scripts By: Rajendra Gutta Provides valuable, time-tested scripts for any DBA to automate the daily administration activity of an Oracle database. It provides scripts for Space management, Backup and recovery, tuning, and other handy scripts (locking, user reports, resource usage etc.), useful for troubleshooting everyday problems.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 101 By: Lars Bo Vanting, Dirk Schepanek Ideal for those new to Oracle technology, this officially authorized guide explains in easy-to-follow detail how to administer an Oracle database using this state-of-the-art tool. Inside, you'll learn to eliminate, simplify, and automate administrative tasks and use Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) as a management framework for your entire Oracle environment.

Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs By: Donald K. Burleson Provides the type of in-depth, highly technical information not found in any other book, information only available from peers and consultants. The chapters focus on the truly tough stuff - proven techniques learned in the trenches. A compendium of the best and most useful articles form Oracle Internals, Auerbach Publications' newsletter for Oracle database administrators and other Oracle professionals.

Oracle Security Handbook By: Marlene L. Theriault, Aaron Newman From Oracle Press comes a comprehensive guide to implementing a sound security plan in your Oracle environment. This expert resource explains how to secure the operating system, the database, and the network and how to use Oracle's built-in security features. The book also explains how to hacker-proof, audit, and troubleshoot your entire system.

Implementing and Managing Oracle Databases By: Steve Lemme, John R. Colby Presents the background and development tools needed to maximize the usage of an Oracle database. Shows how to find the right platform to use, how to successfully implement the database, how to enjoy the benefits of all of the newest applications, maximizing availability for e-commerce and other opportunities.

Oracle8i and Unix Performance Tuning By: Ahmed Alomari Maximize performance: Tune Oracle8i and UNIX together! Now, the #1 guide to Oracle tuning on UNIX platforms has been thoroughly updated for Oracle 8i! Oracle Senior Performance Engineer Ahmed Alomari covers every relevant optimization technique for every leading application and approach, including Web-centered development, OLTP, OLAP/DSS, and object-relational database systems.

Oracle and SQL Server Integration By: Stephen Chelack This incisive guide delineates the pros and cons of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases, describes how to move from one to the other, and explains how to work with both simultaneously. The CD-ROM offers trial versions of both Oracle8i(tm) and SQL Server 7.

Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Reference By: David Kreines, Brian Laskey, Deborah Russell (Editor) Provides essential information and examples of how to perform a variety of critical DBA functions. The information is presented in roughly the same sequence that these functions would be performed as the DBA plans and implements a new Oracle installation. Also includes detailed reference information (command syntax, etc.) needed to perform DBA functions.

Oracle8 How-To: The Definitive Oracle8 Problem-Solver By: Edward Honour, Paul Dalberth, Ari Kaplan, Atul Mehta Contains solutions to issues faced by professional Oracle database administrators. The book covers solutions related to the Oracle architecture, security, storage management, and performance tuning. Oracle networking, distributed databases, advanced replication, and backup and recovery are also covered in detail. Includes examples which take the guesswork out of performing database administration tasks.

Oracle Design By: Dave Ensor, Ian Stevenson Examines the project life cycle and where design fits in that cycle. Describes design issues for the database itself -- denormalization, data types, keys, indexes, temporal data, import/export, backup, recovery, security, and more. Explores design issues for specific architectures and environments -- client/server, distributed database, data warehouses, and parallel processing. Describes design issues for the code that accesses the database -- metrics and prototypes, locking, the toolset, design of screens, reports, batch programs, etc.

Oracle Performance Tuning By: Mark Gurry, Peter Corrigan Offers 400 pages of updated material on Oracle features, including parallel server, parallel query, Oracle Performance Pack, disk striping and mirroring, RAID, MPPs, SMPs, distributed databases, backup and recovery, and much more.

Oracle8 Advanced Tuning & Administration By: Eyal Aronoff, Kevin Loney, Noorali Sonawalla Covers all new aspects of Oracle8, including: partitioned tables, abstract datatypes, index-only tables, objects, and more. CD-ROM includes code from the book, plus a new version of SQLab -- a valuable application tool that help readers practice advanced optimization techniques. Also includes 100 DBA practice questions to help you evaluate your personal training needs.

Oracle Scripts By: Brian Lomasky, David C. Kreines These scripts will simplify everyday tasks -- monitoring databases, protecting against data loss, improving security and performance, and helping to diagnose problems and repair databases in emergencies. The accompanying CD-ROM contains complete source code and additional monitoring and tuning software.

Oracle Distributed Systems By: Charles Dye, Deorah Russell (Editor), Deborah Russell (Editor) Describes the describes the benefits and tradeoffs of distributed database system and shows how you can use multiple databases and the distributed features of Oracle to best advantage. Includes information on advanced replication, snapshots, multi-master replication, updateable snapshots, procedural replication, and conflict resolution.

Oracle8 Backup & Recovery Handbook By: Rama Velpuri, Anand Adkoli Covers backup principles (physical and logical backups, backup commands); backup scripts (specific scripts to run in a VMS or UNIX environment); recovery principles and methods; and diagnostic tools and debugging techniques. Includes a completely new set of backup and recovery techniques and case studies which cover issues such as tablespace point-in-time recovery; recovering an altered table; and recovering a partitioned table.

Oracle Networking By: Hugo Toledo Shares the secrets of building a networked environment using the full range of Oracle tools. Readers will learn how to create a networked Oracle database environment that fully realizes its potential. They will find coverage of topics from Windows 95 workstations to Oracle Internet databases and everything in between. Also included are many useful examples of security, examples, network utilization modeling, and even Oracle Mobile Agents implementationS

Oracle8I Internal Services for Waits, Latches, Locks, and Memory By: Steve Adams Contains detailed, hard-to-find information about Oracle internals (data structures, algorithms, hidden parameters, and undocumented system statistics). Main topics include waits, latches, locks (including instance locks used in parallel server environments), and memory use and management. Aimed especially at readers doing advanced performance tuning.

Oracle8 Tuning By: Michael J. Corey (Editor), Michael Abbey, Daniel J., Jr. Dechichio, Abbott Corey Learn strategies and systems to avoid problems, increase database speed, and ensure overall security as well as the basics of improving Oracle's performance and how to use its tools and networking capabilities.

Oracle8i DBA Handbook By: Kevin Loney, Marlene Theriault Covers new features of Oracle 8i such as transportable tablespaces, RMAN, locally managed tablespaces, materialized views, and the Database Resource Manager. Many of the chapters also include new "Solutions" sections that describe the most common solutions to the design and implementation challenges facing DBAs.

Oracle8 Data Warehousing By: Michael J. Corey (Editor), Michael Abbey, Ben Taub, Ian Abramson Provides a fundamental understanding of Data Warehousing and shows how to implement the concept to the database environment. Includes coverage of Oracle's Express (analyzer) tool and other third-party tools. Includes data transformation techniques, partitioning, ROLAP and Aggregate Navigators, and OLAP tools.

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