1. Chapter 1 Introducing Oracle

   1. The Evolution of the Relational Database

   2. The Oracle Database Family

   3. Summary of Oracle Database Features

   4. Database Application Development Features

   5. Database Connection Features

   6. Distributed Database Features

   7. Data Movement Features

   8. Database Performance Features

   9. Database Management Features

   10. Database Security Features

   11. Oracle Development Tools

   12. Embedded Databases

2. Chapter 2 Oracle Architecture

   1. Databases and Instances

   2. Deploying Physical Components

   3. Instance Memory and Processes

   4. The Data Dictionary

3. Chapter 3 Installing and Running Oracle

   1. Installing Oracle

   2. Creating a Database

   3. Configuring Oracle Net

   4. Starting Up the Database

   5. Shutting Down the Database

   6. Accessing a Database

   7. Oracle at Work

4. Chapter 4 Oracle Data Structures

   1. Datatypes

   2. Basic Data Structures

   3. Additional Data Structures

   4. Extended Logic for Data

   5. Data Design

   6. Constraints

   7. Triggers

   8. Query Optimization

   9. Understanding the Execution Plan

   10. SQL Advisors

   11. Data Dictionary Tables

5. Chapter 5 Managing Oracle

   1. Manageability Features

   2. Oracle Enterprise Manager

   3. Fragmentation and Reorganization

   4. Backup and Recovery

   5. Working with Oracle Support

6. Chapter 6 Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance

   1. Security

   2. Auditing

   3. Compliance

7. Chapter 7 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. Database Resource Manager

8. Chapter 8 Oracle 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

9. Chapter 9 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 Streams and Advanced Queuing

   7. Object Technologies and Distributed Components

10. Chapter 10 Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

    1. Business Intelligence Basics

    2. Data Warehouse Design

    3. Query Optimization

    4. Analytics, OLAP, and Data Mining in the Database

    5. Managing the Data Warehouse

    6. Other Software for the Data Warehouse

    7. The Metadata Challenge

    8. Best Practices

11. Chapter 11 Oracle and High Availability

    1. What Is High Availability?

    2. System Failure

    3. Protecting Against System Failure

    4. Recovering from Failures

    5. Complete Site Failure

    6. Data Redundancy Solutions

    7. Rolling Upgrades

12. Chapter 12 Oracle and Hardware Architecture

    1. System Basics

    2. Uniprocessor Systems

    3. Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems

    4. Clusters

    5. Non-Uniform Memory Access Systems

    6. Grid Computing

    7. Disk and Storage Technology

    8. Which Platform Deployment Solution?

13. Chapter 13 Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data

    1. Accessing Multiple Databases As a Single Entity

    2. Moving Data Between Distributed Systems

14. Chapter 14 Oracle Extended Datatypes

    1. Object-Oriented Development

    2. Extensibility Features and Options

    3. Using the Extensibility Framework in Oracle

15. Chapter 15 Beyond the Oracle Database

    1. Application Express

    2. Oracle Fusion Middleware

    3. Oracle SOA Suite

1. Appendix What's New in This Book for Oracle Database 11g

   1. : Introducing Oracle

   2. : Oracle Architecture

   3. : Installing and Running Oracle

   4. : Data Structures

   5. : Managing Oracle

   6. : Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance

   7. : Oracle Performance

   8. : Oracle Multiuser Concurrency

   9. : Oracle and Transaction Processing

   10. : Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

   11. : Oracle and High Availability

   12. : Oracle and Hardware Architecture

   13. : Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data

   14. : Oracle Extended Datatypes

   15. : Beyond the Oracle Database

2. Appendix Additional Resources

   1. Web Sites

   2. Books and Oracle Documentation

3. Colophon

The animals on the cover of Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g are cicadas. There are about 1,500 species of cicada. In general, cicadas are large insects with long thin wings that are perched above an inch-long abdomen. Their heads are also large and contain three eyes and a piercing and sucking mechanism with which to extrude sap from trees. Cicadas are known for their characteristic shrill buzz, which is actually the male's mating song, one of the loudest known insect noises.

Cicadas emerge from the ground in the spring or summer, molt, then shed their skin in the form of a shell. They stay near trees and plants, where they live for four to six weeks with the sole purpose of mating. The adult insects then die, and their young hatch and burrow into the ground. They attach to tree roots and feed off the sap for 4 to 17 years, after which time they emerge and continue the mating cycle. Cicadas have one of the longest life spans of any insect; the most common species is the periodical cicada, which lives underground for 13 to 17 years.

The cover image is an original 19th-century engraving from Cuvier's Animals. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.The production editors for Book Title, eMatter Edition were Ellie Cutler and Jeff Liggett. Linda Walsh was the product manager. Kathleen Wilson provided design support. Lenny Muellner, Mike Sierra, Erik Ray, and Benn Salter provided technical support. This eMatter Edition was produced with FrameMaker 5.5.6.