Oracle Essence

Author: Rick Greenwald
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Publication Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This book condenses a vast amount of information about what Oracle is and the features of its latest versions, organizing this information into an easily readable format. It highlights key points, examples, and helpful tips. The chapters cover the following content: Oracle products, options, data structures, as well as the overall architecture of Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and Oracle8. Oracle networking, management, monitoring, performance optimization, data warehousing, and distributed databases. Multitasking concurrency, online transaction processing (OLTP), high availability, and hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, MPPT, and NUMA). Oracle and the Web.
About the Author: Rick Greenwald has been active in the computer software industry for nearly two decades, having worked for DataGeneral, Cognos, and Gupta. He is currently an analyst at Oracle. He has published six books and has written countless articles on various technical topics, in addition to delivering presentations at academic conferences and training sessions. Besides this book, Rick has authored titles such as Oracle PowerObjects Developer's Guide, Mastering Oracle PowerObject, Using Oracle Web Server, The Oracle WebDB Bible, and Administering Exchange Server.