Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8
Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition By Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
June 2001
Pages: 384

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon


Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introducing Oracle

    1. The Evolution of the Relational Database

    2. The Oracle Family

    3. Summary of Oracle Features

    4. Database Application Development Features

    5. Database Connection Features

    6. Distributed Database Features

    7. Data Movement Features

    8. Performance Features

    9. Database Management Features

    10. Oracle Internet Developer Suite

    11. Oracle Lite

  2. Chapter 2 Oracle Architecture

    1. Instances and Databases

    2. The Components of a Database

    3. The Components of an Instance

    4. The Data Dictionary

  3. Chapter 3 Installing and Running Oracle

    1. Installing Oracle

    2. Creating a Database

    3. Configuring Oracle Net/Net8

    4. Starting Up the Database

    5. Shutting Down the Database

    6. Accessing a Database

    7. Oracle at Work

  4. Chapter 4 Data Structures

    1. Datatypes

    2. Basic Data Structures

    3. Additional Data Structures

    4. Data Design

    5. Constraints

    6. Triggers

    7. Query Optimization

    8. Understanding the Execution Plan

    9. Data Dictionary Tables

  5. Chapter 5 Managing Oracle

    1. Implementing Security

    2. Management Through the Oracle Enterprise Manager

    3. Options for Oracle Enterprise Manager

    4. Fragmentation and Reorganization

    5. Backup and Recovery

    6. Working with Oracle Support

  6. Chapter 6 Oracle Performance

    1. Performance Tuning Basics

    2. Oracle and Disk I/O Resources

    3. Oracle and Parallelism

    4. Oracle and Memory Resources

    5. Oracle and CPU Resources

    6. Avoiding Performance Problemswith Oracle9i

    7. Real Application Clustersand Performance

  7. Chapter 7 Multiuser Concurrency

    1. Basics of Concurrent Access

    2. Oracle and Concurrent User Access

    3. Oracle's Isolation Levels

    4. Oracle Concurrency Features

    5. How Oracle Handles Locking

    6. Concurrent Access and Performance

    7. Workspaces

  8. Chapter 8 Oracle and Transaction Processing

    1. OLTP Basics

    2. Oracle's OLTP Heritage

    3. Architectures for OLTP

    4. Oracle Features for OLTP

    5. High Availability

    6. Oracle Advanced Queuing

    7. Object Technologies and Distributed Components

  9. Chapter 9 Oracle and Data Warehousing

    1. Data Warehousing Basics

    2. Data Warehouse Design

    3. Query Optimization

    4. OLAP in the Database

    5. Managing the Data Warehouse

    6. Other Data Warehouse Software

    7. The Metadata Challenge

    8. Best Practices

  10. Chapter 10 Oracle and High Availability

    1. What Is High Availability?

    2. System Crashes

    3. Protecting Against System Crashes

    4. Recovering from Disasters

    5. Complete Site Failure

    6. Data Redundancy Solutions

  11. Chapter 11 Oracle and Hardware Architecture

    1. System Basics

    2. Uniprocessor Systems

    3. Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems

    4. Clusters

    5. Massively Parallel Processing Systems

    6. Nonuniform Memory Access Systems

    7. Disk Technology

    8. Which Hardware Solution?

  12. Chapter 12 Distributed Databases and Distributed Data

    1. Accessing Multiple Databases as a Single Entity

    2. Two-Phase Commits

    3. Moving Data Between Distributed Systems

    4. Advanced Queuing

  13. Chapter 13 Extending Oracle Datatypes

    1. Object-Oriented Development

    2. Extensibility Features and Options

    3. Using the Extensibility Framework in Oracle

  14. Chapter 14 Oracle and the Web

    1. The Internet Computing Platform

    2. Oracle as an Internet Server

    3. XML

    4. Dynamic Services

    5. Oracle Internet Application Server

    6. Oracle9iAS Portal

  1. Appendix A What's New in This Book for Oracle9i

    1. Chapter 1

    2. Chapter 2

    3. Chapter 3

    4. Chapter 4

    5. Chapter 5

    6. Chapter 6

    7. Chapter 7

    8. Chapter 8

    9. Chapter 9

    10. Chapter 10

    11. Chapter 11

    12. Chapter 12

    13. Chapter 13

    14. Chapter 14

  2. Appendix B Additional Resources

    1. Web Sites

    2. Books and Oracle Documentation

  3. Colophon

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