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Expert Oracle Database Architecture

9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Kyte
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  • A proven best-seller and widely-recognized as the best Oracle book ever written, by the most recognized Oracle expert in the world

  • Fully revised for the 9i and 10g versions of the database

  • Inspired by the thousands of questions Tom has answered on his http://asktom.oracle.com site. It defines what Oracle really is, and why it is so powerful and it tackles the problems that developers and DBAs struggle with every day

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
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  2. Developing Successful Oracle Applications

    Pages 1-47

  3. Architecture Overview

    Pages 49-63

  4. Files

    Pages 65-114

  5. Memory Structures

    Pages 115-154

  6. Oracle Processes

    Pages 155-182

  7. Locking and Latching

    Pages 183-230

  8. Concurrency and Multi-Versioning

    Pages 231-254

  9. Transactions

    Pages 255-281

  10. Redo and Undo

    Pages 283-336

  11. Database Tables

    Pages 337-419

  12. Indexes

    Pages 421-488

  13. Datatypes

    Pages 489-556

  14. Partitioning

    Pages 557-614

  15. Parallel Execution

    Pages 615-648

  16. Data Loading and Unloading

    Pages 649-703

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 705-724
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About this book

This is a defining book on the Oracle database for any developer or database administrator who works with Oracle-driven database applications. Tom Kyte has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter, then you will find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly.

Expert Oracle Database Architecture is the first of a three-book series that completely explores and defines the Oracle database. It covers all of the most important Oracle architecture features, including:

  • Files, memory structures and processes
  • Locking and latching
  • Transactions, concurrency and multi-versioning
  • Tables and Indexes
  • Datatypes
  • Partitioning and parallelism

Each feature is taught in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing what it is, but also how it works, how to implement software using it, and the common pitfalls associated with it.

This fully revised edition covers both the 9i and 10g versions. It also comes with a CD containing a searchable PDF of the 8i version of the book.

Tom has fully revised and expanded the architecture-related sections from Expert One-on-One Oracle (a searchable PDF of which is included on the CD accompanying this book), and added substantial new material. He focuses solely on 9i and 10g architecture in this book and refers to the CD for 8i-specific details. The number of changes will surprise you.

In summary, this book provides a one-stop resource containing deep wisdom on the design, development and administration of Oracle applications, written by one of the world's foremost Oracle experts, Thomas Kyte.

About the author

Thomas Kyte is vice president of the Core Technologies Group at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.0.9 was released in 1993. Kyte, however, has been working with Oracle since version 5.1.5c. At Oracle, Kyte works with the Oracle database, and more specifically, he helps clients who are using the Oracle database and works directly with them specifying and building their systems or rebuilding and tuning them. Prior to working at Oracle, Kyte was a systems integrator who built large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications for military and government clients.Tom Kyte is the same "Ask Tom" whose column appears in Oracle Magazine, where he answers questions about the Oracle database and tools that developers and database administrators struggle with every day.

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