Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs

  • 13h 41m
  • Donald K. Burleson (ed)
  • CRC Press
  • 2002

If you are a typical Oracle professional, you don't have the luxury of time to keep up with new technology and read all the new manuals to understand each new feature of each release of Oracle. You need a comprehensive source of information and techniques for using the new technology. You need Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs.

This book is a compendium of the best and most useful articles from Oracle Internals, Auerbach Publications' newsletter for Oracle database administrators and other Oracle professionals. Edited by Oracle guru Donald K. Burleson, it provides in-depth, highly technical information not found in any other books, information only available from peers and consultants.

The chapters focus on the truly tough stuff--proven techniques learned in the trenches. You could get this information from other sources, but you'd have to hunt and peck for it. Oracle Interals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs gives you all the advice you need in one easy-to-use resource.

FEATURES

  • Highlights the suite of Oracle Web development tools and gives you an in-depth understanding of the internal communications between HTTP and XML
  • Demonstrates how Java can be used to create portable and robust Oracle applications
  • Contains invlauable tips and tricks regarding how to use the different dialects of UNIX to communicate with the database
  • Provides information from Oracle tuning experts on maximizing the performance of SQL statements within Oracle's library cache and ensuring that your Oracle database runs at optimal levels
  • Explains the internal architecture of disk I/O subsystems and how to ensure that they make proper use of Oracle's RAM buffers in order to minimize disk I/O
  • Explores issues surrounding distributed Oracle systems, specfically techniques for automating the distribution of Oracle client software and tools for Net8 and SQL *Net performance tuning
  • Covers the technical nuances of the EBU and RMAN products

In this Book

  • Oracle Internals—Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs
  • Introduction
  • A Practical Example of Data Conversion
  • Using Wizards in an Oracle Developer 6i Form
  • Using Oracle’s Developer 6i to Create a Record Directory
  • Using Hierarchical Tree Items in Oracle’s Developer 6i
  • Populating Oracle Form Hierarchies Incrementally at Runtime
  • Oracle Designer 2.1.2.API: Enforcing Column Naming Standards
  • Building a .com from the Ground Up
  • Rapid Web Deploymentwith WebDB
  • Introduction to iAS for the OAS Administrator
  • Viewing Performance Data with OAS
  • Top DBA Scripts for Web Developers
  • Web-Based Testing and Capacity Planning
  • HTTP Listeners
  • Introduction to UTL_HTTP
  • Portal 3.0: Moving Folders Across Content Areas with Its API
  • Not WebDB 3.0, Not iPortal, But Oracle Portal
  • The Fast Track to Java with Oracle
  • Building a Java Appletfor Monitoring Oracle
  • UNIX Scripts for Oracle Administration
  • UNIX Tips and Tricks for the Oracle DBA
  • File Exchange Solutions: SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, and Pro*C
  • Gauging How Linux May Change the DBMS Market
  • Strategies for an Archives Management Program
  • Scripting Oracle Backups with RMAN and EBU
  • Alert Mechanismsfor RMAN Backups
  • Tips and Scripts for Implementing RMAN
  • Paging People with Oracle8i Out of the Box
  • Cost-Based Optimization: Whys and Hows
  • Analytic Functions
  • Piranhas in the Pool: Investigations into Literal SQL and Oracle Shared Pool Performance
  • Managing Database Objects in Sets
  • Oracle’s Joins
  • To_Format
  • Exploring Disk Size and Oracle Disk I/O Performance
  • Adaptive Strategies for Disk Performance in Oracle
  • RAID and Oracle
  • Visualizing the I/O Signature
  • Automating Distribution of Oracle Client Software
  • SQL*Net Diagnostics and Performance Tuning
  • Pinning Packages in the SGA
  • Investigating the Multiple Buffer Pool Feature of Oracle8
  • Diving into the Shared Pool
  • Managing Multiple Buffer Pools in Oracle8
  • Oracle8i Buffer Cache: New Features
  • How I Reorganized a Large Database
  • Partition and Conquer
  • Eliminating Space Reorganizations in Oracle8i
  • Determining the Table Rebuild Ratio for Oracle Tables
  • Oracle Parallel Query
  • Managing Oracle Table Freelists
  • Using Roles in Oracle Security
  • Managing Row-Level Security in Oracle8i
  • Auditing Oracle
  • What’s Wrong with My Data?
  • Oracle Express Development in the Enterprise
  • An Approach to Load Analysis and Stress Testing
  • Undocumented Express
  • Enterprise Transformation and Data Management
  • Getting a Quick Start with Oracle8i
  • Oracle Sessions Monitoring
  • The Object/Relational Features of Oracle8
  • Hardware Considerations
  • Oracle Extras
  • Oracle’s Triggers
  • Concurrency
  • The Supporting GROUPS
  • Registering a Metadata Schema
  • ORADEBUG: A Useful (Undocumented?) Utility
  • Using the DBMS_LOCK Built-In Package
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