June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 36m
English
book
Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition
by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
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Structure of This Book
This book is divided into fourteen chapters and two appendixes, as follows.
Chapter 1, briefly describes the range of Oracle products and provides some history of Oracle and relational databases.
Chapter 2, describes the core concepts and structures (e.g., files, processes, and so on) that are the architectural basis of Oracle8.
Chapter 3, brieflydescribes how to install Oracle and how to configure, start up, and shut down the database. It also covers a variety of networking issues.
Chapter 4, summarizes the various datatypes supported by Oracle and introduces the Oracle objects (e.g., tables, views, indexes). It also provides information about query optimization.
Chapter 5, provides an overview of issues involved in managing an Oracle system, including security, using the Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) product, and dealing with database fragmentation and reorganization issues.
Chapter 6, describes the main issues relevant to Oracle performance—especially the major performance characteristics of disk, memory, and CPU tuning—and pays special attention to parallelism in Oracle.
Chapter 7, describes the basic principles of multiuser concurrency (e.g., transactions, locks, integrity problems) and explains how Oracle handles concurrency.
Chapter 8, describes online transaction processing (OLTP) in Oracle.
Chapter 9, describes the basic principles of data warehouses and data marts and how you can use Oracle to build such systems.
Chapter 10, discusses ...
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