Exploring Oracle Internals

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 the latest release from Oracle. You need a comprehensive source of information and in-depth tips and techniques for using the new technology. You need Oracle Internals: Tips, Trick

This text explains hot issues for resolving the most difficult performance and recovery issues for Oracle 11g databases. It will allow the experienced Oracle professional to become an expert on how the Oracle database engine really works and provide the Oracle beginner with the solid core knowledge of the theory and practice behind the Oracle database. Most experienced Oracle DBAs are familiar with the standard utilities found within the Oracle database server environment such as RMAN, export and import and Grid Control. However, when it comes down to how the actual database engine works under the hood, the internal workings of Oracle are poorly documented or hidden from plain view of the working DBA. Are you a senior level Oracle professional who wants to learn the secret workings of the Oracle 11g database engine to be able to solve tricky database issues? This timely and expert guide will cover many of the little known and undocumented features within the newest release of Oracle database for Oracle 11g. It will be a perfect capstone to mastering the keys to the kingdom of the Oracle 11g engine. Move from the average Oracle DBA to become an expert level DBA with the help of this exciting new guide from an Oracle guru! Topics will include a detailed discussion of the latest Oracle 11g database internals which previously have been undocumented and internal to only the Oracle server development team. In addition, tools and utilities that have been previously neglected such as how to use internal tools for database issues such as oradebug and tkprof will be explored for tuning difficult issues with the Oracle 11g database. This book distills the very complex nature of Oracle 11g database internals using undocumented tools and features that have not been covered so that database professionals can gain mastery over solving the most difficult and challenging issues for Oracle 11g.

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 the latest release from Oracle. You need a comprehensive source of information and in-depth tips and techniques for using the new technology. You need Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs. Oracle has evolved from a simple relational database into one of the most complex e-commerce platforms ever devised. It's not enough for you to understand just the Oracle database. You must also understand the components of the Web server technology, XML, Oracle Security, Oracle and Java, and a host of other issues in order to do your job properly. 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 Don Burleson, it provides the type of in-depth, highly technical information not found in any other book, 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. Can you afford that kind of time? Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs gives you knowledge and advice directly applicable to your work in one easy-to-use resource.

Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers by Jonathan Lewis provides just the essential information about Oracle Database internals that every database administrator needs for troubleshooting—no more, no less. Oracle Database seems complex on the surface. However, its extensive feature set is really built upon upon a core infrastructure resulting from sound architectural decisions made very early on that have stood the test of time. This core infrastructure manages transactions and the ability to commit and roll back changes, protects the integrity of the database, enables backup and recovery, and allows for scalability to thousands of users all accessing the same data. Most performance, backup, and recovery problems that database administrators face on a daily basis can easily be identified through understanding the essential core of Oracle Database architecture that Lewis describes in this book. Provides proven content from a world-renowned performance and troubleshooting expert Emphasizes the significance of internals knowledge to rapid identification of database performance problems Covers the core essentials and does not waste your time with esoterica

Based on Oracle8i, release 8.1, this concise book contains detailed, hard-to-find information about Oracle internals (data structures, algorithms, hidden parameters, and undocumented system statistics). Main topics include waits, latches, locks (including instance locks used in parallel server environments) and memory use and management.

Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 R8.4 book explains the concepts and principles of project management through practical examples, tutorials, and exercises. This enables the users to harness the power of managing projects with Oracle Primavera P6 for their specific use. In this book, the author emphasizes on planning, managing and controlling the projects, assigning resources and roles to a project, and producing schedule and resources reports and graphics. This book is specially meant for professionals and students in engineering, project management and allied fields in the building industry. Salient Features Detailed explanation of Oracle Primavera concepts Projects given as tutorials Tips and Notes throughout the textbook 273 pages of illustrated text Self-Evaluation Tests, Review Questions, and Exercises at the end of the chapters Table of Contents Chapter 1: Getting Started with Primavera P6 Chapter 2: Creating Projects Chapter 3: Defining Calendars and Work Breakdown Structure Chapter 4: Working with Activities and Establishing Relationships Chapter 5: Defining Resources and Roles Chapter 6: Risks and Issues, and Setting Baselines Chapter 7: Project Expenses and Tracking Progress of Project Chapter 8: Printing Layouts and Reports Index

Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 Professional 18 book explains the concepts and principles of project management through practical examples, tutorials, and exercises. This enables the users to harness the power of managing projects with Oracle Primavera P6 for their specific use. In this book, the author emphasizes on planning, managing and controlling the projects, assigning resources and roles to a project, and producing schedule and resources reports and graphics. This book is specially meant for professionals and students in engineering, project management and allied fields in the building industry. Salient Features: Detailed explanation of Oracle Primavera concepts. Real-world projects given as tutorials. Tips and Notes throughout the book. 264 pages of illustrated text. Self-Evaluation Tests, Review Questions, and Exercises at the end of the chapters Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Getting Started with Primavera P6 Professional 18 Chapter 2: Creating Projects Chapter 3: Defining Calendars and Work Breakdown Structure Chapter 4: Working with Activities and Establishing Relationships Chapter 5: Defining Resources and Roles Chapter 6: Risks and Issues, and Setting Baselines Chapter 7: Project Expenses and Tracking Progress of Project Chapter 8: Printing Layouts and Reports Index

As Oracle professionals are challenged to create SQL statements that will support thousands of concurrent executions with sub-second response time, this book’s timing is critical as tuning Oracle SQL has become the single most important skill of the Oracle professional. While not appropriate for the beginner, this book allows senior Oracle professionals to explore important internal mechanisms within Oracle and the powerful and complex internals of Oracle SQL execution. Topics include the internals of Oracle cost-based SQL optimizer, SQL execution internals within the library cache, Oracle SQL coding and optimization techniques, and Oracle index internals. Also included is a ready-to-use code depot full of working SQL tuning scripts, which allow for quick optimization of the SQL and indexes inside the Oracle database.