Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I'd like to acknowledge my gratitude for Charles Kim, my coauthor. It's a privilege to write a book with a consummate Oracle professional such as Charles. Charles has made writing this book a great pleasure, and he worked hard to meet our short deadlines, this being a "new features" book, whose contents always seem to be in a flux.

No Oracle-based book, let alone a "new features" book, can be conjured from thin air. I want to acknowledge the wonderful efforts of the Oracle Beta folks, who made the Oracle Database 11g Beta release available to me by extending an invitation to be part of their beta testing team. I benefited immensely by the high-quality e-studies and other technical studies made available by ...