Oracle Essentials: Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i - Softcover

Greenwald, Rick; Stackowiak, Robert; Stern, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565927087 ISBN 13: 9781565927087

Publisher: O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES, 1999

Synopsis

Oracle is an enormous system with myriad technologies, options, and releases. Most users--even experienced developers and database administrators--find it difficult to get a handle on the full scope of the Oracle system. And as each new version of the database is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies.

This book distills the enormous amount of information about what Oracle is, where it came from, and what the latest releases do--and packages it into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations and helpful hints. It explains what's new and important about Oracle's revolutionary releases, Oracle8 (the "object-relational database") and Oracle8"i (the "Internet database"). It covers:

Oracle products, options, and overall architectureInstalling and running Oracle (creating databases, configuring Net8, starting up and shutting down Oracle)Oracle data structuresManaging Oracle (implementing security, using the Oracle Enterprise Manager, dealing with fragmentation and reorganization, and performing backup and recovery)Oracle networkingMonitoring and tuningMulti-user concurrency and online transaction processing (OLTP)Special issues for high-availability systems Hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, MPP, NUMA) and their impact on OracleData warehousingDistributed databases Extensions for Oracle8 and Oracle8"i, including the latest Java and web technologies

It also includes an appendix full of references to additional online and offline resources.

For new Oracle users, DBAs, developers, and managers, "Oracle Essentials provides an invaluable, all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oraclefeatures and technologies. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation and books, you'll find that this compact book is the one you turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.

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Review

O'Reilly's series of Oracle references rapidly build up into a complete reference library that will sit at the front of the shelves of any Oracle DBA. But first you've got to get started, and Oracle Essentials is meant to be that jumping-off point.

Instead of throwing you in at the deep end with a dissertation on data mining, or some obscure section of the Oracle environment, the authors give you a concise and clear guide to the features of the latest Oracle databases--and how you're likely to want to use them. From an introduction to Oracle's family of tools and technologies to a look at Oracle on the Web, Oracle Essentials is full of useful information. It's not just a book that describes the features--you'll also find code samples and plenty of hands-on practical advice. If you're still unclear, the book's diagrams show just what the authors are describing.

Oracle Essentials is a distillation of the knowledge of a group of very experienced Oracle engineers, and it should be on the desk of anyone working with Oracle. --Simon Bisson, amazon.co.uk

About the Author

Rick Greenwald has been active in the world of computer software for over two decades, including stints with Data General, Cognos, and Gupta. He is currently Director of Product Management with Oracle Corporation, responsible for the Oracle Database Cloud. He has been a principal author of 19 books and countless articles on a variety of technical topics, and has spoken at conferences and training sessions across six continents. Rick’s titles include 4 editions of Oracle Essentials (principal author with Robert Stackowiak and Jonathan Stern, O'Reilly Media, Inc), a number of books on Application Express and its predecessors, and books on data warehousing, Oracle programming and Exadata.

Robert Stackowiak has more than 25 years of experience in data warehousing and business intelligence architecture, software development, new database and systems product introduction, and technical sales and sales consulting. During the writing of this edition of Oracle Essentials, he is Vice President of Big Data and Analytics Architecture in Oracle’s Enterprise Solutions Group. He has spoken on related Oracle topics at a wide variety of conferences including Gartner Group’s BI Summit, TDWI, ComputerWorld’s BI & Analytics Perspectives, Oracle OpenWorld, and numerous IOUG events. Among the other books he co-authored are the following: Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata (McGraw-Hill Oracle Press), Professional Oracle Programming (WROX), and Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions (Wiley). He can be followed on Twitter @rstackow.

Jonathan Stern used more than 13 years of experience in contributing to the original edition of this book. His background included senior positions in consulting, systems architecture, and technical sales at Oracle and other companies. He demonstrated in-depth knowledge of the Oracle Database across major open systems hardware and operating systems. His expertise included Database tuning, scaling, parallelism, clustering, and high availability for transaction processing systems and data warehousing implementations. Some of the fundamentals of Oracle that he originally contributed to the first edition live on in this edition of Oracle Essentials though much has changed in the Oracle Database since Jonathan passed on. Each edition of this book is a reminder of the talent and attention to detail that he possessed.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565927087
• ISBN 13: 9781565927087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 355