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Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition

By Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
June 2001
Pages: 384
ISBN 10: 0-596-00179-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596001797
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Updated for Oracle's latest release, Oracle9i, Oracle Essentials is a concise and readable technical introduction to Oracle features and technologies, including the Oracle architecture, data structures, configuration, networking, tuning, and data warehousing. It introduces such major Oracle9i features as Real Application clusters, flashback queries, clickstream intelligence, Oracle Database and Web Cache, XML integration, the Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle9i Portal, and much more.
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The second edition of O'Reilly's bestselling Oracle Essentials has been updated to include the latest Oracle release, Oracle9i. Oracle Essentials distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle's myriad technologies and releases into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. Oracle9i promises to be an even more significant upgrade than Oracle8i, offering such major features as Real Application Clusters, flashback queries, Oracle personalization, clickstream intelligence, and Oracle Database Cache and Web Cache; it also promises significant improvements in Oracle's business intelligence, XML integration, high availability, and management capabilities. The book includes overviews of these features, as well as the new Oracle9I Application Server (Oracle9iAS) and Oracle9i Portal. The book contains chapters on:
  • Oracle products, options, and overall architecture for Oracle9i and other recent releases
  • Installing and running Oracle: creating databases, configuring Net8 (known as Oracle Net in Oracle9i), starting up and shutting down Oracle
  • Oracle data structures, datatypes, and ways of extending datatypes
  • Managing Oracle: security, the Oracle Enterprise Manager, fragmentation and reorganization, and backup and recovery
  • Oracle networking, monitoring, and 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
  • Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and the Web, including the latest Java, web, and XML technologies, interMedia, Oracle9i Application Server, and Oracle9i Portal
For new Oracle users, DBAs, developers, and managers, Oracle Essentials is an all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features and technologies, including the just-released Oracle9i features. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation, this compact book is the one you'll turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.

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Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 Review,  November 03 2003
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Submitted by Dan Hamm   [Respond | View]

Excellent overview with enought detail to allow me to prepare a position paper and talk convincingly at a project meeting involving conversion of a legacy database to Oracle. Surprising amount of operational detail.


Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 Review,  March 10 2003
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Submitted by Connie Zhao   [Respond | View]

Oracle is... huge. I really need a book that can give me a high-level review of everything in a plain and easy to understand language. This book is the one: brief and broad overview of Oracle's architecture, structure and performance etc. After reading the book, I got a much better idea of what is Oracle and how each component(product) relates to each other. The book is well-organized and very easy to follow. It does a good job of explaining all the concepts.


Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 Review,  August 22 2002
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Submitted by Thomas Jefferson   [Respond | View]

I found this book to be an exceptionally good overview of Oracle. I have been working as an Oracle DBA for a number of years and learned quite a few things that I hadn't been aware of as well as 9i specific info.

I strongly recommend this book as a reference manual and it is one of the books that doesn't "collect dust" on my bookshelf.

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Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 Review,  April 17 2002
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Submitted by Asim Ahmed   [Respond | View]

A nice introduction to Oracle technology.

But be warned, it's just an overview. It's excellent for ppl who have worked on other databases such as sybase and DB2. Overall it gets u rolling on oracle merry-go-round.




Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 Review,  July 10 2001
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Submitted by Adam of Ann Arbor   [Respond | View]

A very good book for obtaining a general understanding of Oracle and all of its complexities. It is a "quick" read with concise definitions covering a variety of topics. Furthermore, the authors are very disciplined about not going off on tangents and bluntly (rightly so) tell you to go look somewhere else for further information.

I especially appreciated all the information on 9i. While I still do most of my work on 8i, the introduction to 9i will eventually help me when I begin doing work on that platform.

Overall, a good, supplemental quick reference to my other voluminous Oracle books that stay on my bookshelf because they are too big to tote around.



Media reviews "Top Five Oracle Books...This great book for O'Reilly and Associates offers a concise introduction to a full range of Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and Oracle8's functionality--something you won't find anywhere else on the shelves of your local bookstore."
--Mike Chapple, databases.about.com, Oct 27, 2002

?excellent overview?-- Computer Bulletin, Nov 2001

"I love books like this. I wish there were more of them. I spent over a year working with the Oracle server technology publications group and wrote some of the documentation group and write some of the documentation that this book is based on. The few hours that I spent reading this book gave me a much better sense of all the pieces of this system and how they fit together than I ever achieved reading or writing Oracle documentation. " --Richard Mateosian, IEEE July/August 2001

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