A book/CD-ROM package providing a high level of detail in the internal workings of the Oracle and UNIX kernals, covering only the latest versions of this software. Material is organized into two major areas of decision support and transaction workloads. Requires a basic understanding of SQL and UNIX shell language, and experience with UNIX system and Oracle database administration. The CD-ROM contains performance monitoring scripts, product information, and extensive white papers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
AHMED ALOMARI is Senior Performance Engineer with Oracle Corporation. He has extensive hands-on experience in managing and tuning large-scale UNIX® and database systems. Alomari has written many white papers on Oracle and UNIX® performance tuning, and has spoken at several conferences. He resides in Redwood City, California.