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Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration: From Novice to Professional
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $28.37
Author: Iggy Fernandez
Manufacturer: Apress
ISBN13: 9781590599686
Condition: USED - Very Good
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This book, written by veteran Oracle database administrator Iggy Fernandez, a regular on the Oracle conference circuit and the editor of NoCOUG Journal, is a manageable introduction to key Oracle database administration topics including planning, installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and backups, to name just a few. As is clear from the table of contents, this book is not simply a recitation of Oracle Database features such as what you find in the reference guides available for free download on the Oracle web site. For example, the chapter on database monitoring explains how to monitor database availability, database changes, database security, database backups, database growth, database workload, database performance, and database capacity.

The chapters of this book are logically organized into four parts that closely track the way your database administration career will naturally evolve. Part 1 gives you necessary background in relational database theory and Oracle Database concepts, Part 2 teaches you how to implement an Oracle database correctly, Part 3 exposes you to the daily routine of a database administrator, and Part 4 introduces you to the fine art of performance tuning. Each chapter has exercises designed to help you apply the lessons of the chapter. Each chapter also includes a list of reference works that contain more information on the topic of the chapter.

In this book, you'll find information that you won't find in other books on Oracle Database. Here you'll discover not only technical information, but also guidance on work practices that are as vital to your success as technical skills. The author's favorite chapter is "The Big Picture and the Ten Deliverables." If you take the lessons in that chapter to heart, you can quickly become a much better Oracle database administrator than you ever thought possible.


What you’ll learn

  • Theory of relational database management systems
  • Oracle Database internals
  • Licensing, architecture, and sizing
  • Software installation and database creation
  • Using indexes to improve performance
  • User management and data loading
  • How to monitor all aspects of your database
  • How to solve and fix problems
  • Database backups and database recovery
  • Database maintenance
  • Database tuning
  • SQL tuning

Who is this book for?

If you are an IT professional who has been thrust into an Oracle database administration role without the benefit of formal training, or you just want to understand how Oracle Database works, this book is for you. It's the book the author wishes he'd had when he first started using Oracle Database many years ago. It's the book that he would have liked to have given to the many IT colleagues and friends who, over the years, have asked him to teach them the basics of Oracle Database.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $26.39
Author: Rick Greenwald
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

Oracle is an enormous system, with myriad technologies, options, and releases. Most users-even experienced developers and database administrators-find it difficult to get a handle on the full scope of the Oracle database. And, as each new Oracle version is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies. The latest challenge is Oracle Database 11g.

This book distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. It contains chapters on:

  • Oracle products, options, data structures, and overall architecture for Oracle Database 11g, as well as earlier releases (Oracle Database 10g, Oracle9i, and Oracle8i)


  • Installing, running, managing, monitoring, networking, and tuning Oracle, including Enterprise Manager (EM) and Oracle's self-tuning and management capabilities; and using Oracle security, auditing, and compliance (a new chapter in this edition)


  • Multiuser concurrency, data warehouses, distributed databases, online transaction processing (OLTP), high availability, and hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, clusters, NUMA, and grid computing)


  • Features beyond the Oracle database: Oracle Application Express, Fusion Middleware (including Oracle Application Server), and database SOA support as a Web services provider
The latest Oracle Database 11g features: query result set caching, Automatic Memory Management, the Real Application Testing, Advanced Compression, Total Recall, and Active Data Guard Option Options, changes to the OLAP Option (transparently accessed and managed as materialized views), the Flashback transaction command, transparent data encryption, the Support Workbench (and diagnosability infrastructure), and partitioning enhancements (including interval and new composite types)

For new Oracle users, DBAs, developers, and managers, Oracle Essentials provides an invaluable, all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features and technologies, including the just-released Oracle Database 11g features. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation, you'll find that this compact book is the one you turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.

"Oracle Essentials gives a clear explanation of the key database concepts and architecture underlying the Oracle database. It's a great reference for anyone doing development or management of Oracle databases."

--Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Database Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $47.24
Author: Kevin Loney
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

The Definitive Guide to Oracle Database 11g

Get full details on the powerful features of Oracle Database 11g from this thoroughly updated Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 11g: The Complete Reference explains how to use all the new features and tools, execute powerful SQL queries, construct PL/SQL and SQL*Plus statements, and work with large objects and object-relational databases. Learn how to implement the latest security measures, tune database performance, and deploy grid computing techniques. An invaluable cross-referenced appendix containing Oracle commands, keywords, features, and functions is also included.

  • Install Oracle Database 11g or upgrade from an earlier version
  • Create database tables, sequences, indexes, views, and user accounts
  • Construct SQL statements, procedures, queries, and subqueries
  • Optimize security using virtual private databases and transparent data encryption
  • Import and export data using SQL*Loader and Oracle Data Pump
  • Use SQL replay, change management, and result caching
  • Avoid human errors using flashback and automatic undo management
  • Build and tune PL/SQL triggers, functions, and packages
  • Develop database applications using Java, JDBC, and XML
  • Optimize availability and scalability with Oracle Real Application Clusters

Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $37.79
Author: Michael McLaughlin
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Design Feature-Rich PL/SQL Applications

Deliver dynamic, client/server PL/SQL applications with expert guidance from an Oracle programming professional. With full coverage of the latest features and tools, Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming lays out each topic alongside detailed explanations, cut-and-paste syntax examples, and real-world case studies. Access and modify database information, construct powerful PL/SQL statements, execute effective queries, and deploy bulletproof security. You'll also learn how to implement C, C++, and Java procedures, Web-enable your database, cut development time, and optimize performance.

  • Create, debug, and manage Oracle-driven PL/SQL programs
  • Use PL/SQL structures, delimiters, operators, variables, and statements
  • Identify and eliminate errors using PLSQL_WARNINGS and exception handlers
  • Work with functions, procedures, packages, collections, and triggers
  • Define and deploy varray, nested table, and associative array data types
  • Handle external routines, object types, large objects, and secure files
  • Communicate between parallel sessions using DBMS_ALERT and DBMS_PIPE
  • Call external procedures through Oracle Net Services and PL/SQL wrappers
  • Integrate internal and server-side Java class libraries using Oracle JVM
  • Develop robust Web applications using PL/SQL Gateway and Web Toolkit

Oracle 11g For Dummies
Price: $21.89
Author: Chris Zeis
Manufacturer: For Dummies
ISBN13: 9780470277652
Condition: New
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Are you a seasoned system administrator charged with setting up an Oracle database? Or did you suddenly become a DBA by default? If database administration with Oracle is part of your job, you’ll be glad to have Oracle 11g For Dummies in your cubicle.

This nuts-and-bolts guide walks you through the mysteries of Oracle and database administration. You’ll learn how to understand Oracle database architecture, set up and manage an Oracle database, and keep it running in tiptop form. Oracle 11g For Dummies covers:

  • The building blocks behind the database engine as well as Oracle’s physical and logical structures
  • Hardware, software, system, and storage requirements for implementation
  • How to recognize and accommodate the differences between Oracle installations on Windows and on Linux/UNIX
  • Daily and intermittent tasks necessary to keep your database running properly
  • How to assess potential threats to your database, configure Oracle Recovery Manager, and set up backup and recovery procedures
  • When to use online, offline, controlfile, and archivelog backups
  • Troubleshooting methodology and how to use Oracle database logs and other diagnostic utilities
  • Different ways to manage your database
  • How to automate jobs with the Oracle Scheduler
  • Using SQL in Oracle, and a great deal more

Completely up to date for the newest release of Oracle, Oracle 11g For Dummies will give you both the information and the confidence to set up and maintain an Oracle database for your organization.

Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Covers Versions Through Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (Animal Guide)
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $44.09
Author: Steven Feuerstein
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
ISBN13: 9780596514464
Condition: New
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This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 11g Release 2, this edition reveals new PL/SQL features and provides extensive code samples, ranging from simple examples to complex and complete applications, in the book and on the companion website.

This indispensable reference for both novices and experienced Oracle programmers will help you:

  • Get PL/SQL programs up and running quickly, with clear instructions for executing, tracing, testing, debugging, and managing PL/SQL code
  • Optimize PL/SQL performance with the aid of a brand-new chapter in the fifth edition
  • Explore datatypes, conditional and sequential control statements, loops, exception handling, security features, globalization and localization issues, and the PL/SQL architecture
  • Understand and use new Oracle Database 11g features, including the edition-based redefinition capability, the function result cache, the new CONTINUE statement, fine-grained dependency tracking, sequences in PL/SQL expressions, supertype invocation from subtypes, and enhancements to native compilation, triggers, and dynamic SQL
  • Use new Oracle Database 11g tools and techniques such as PL/Scope, the PL/SQL hierarchical profiler, and the SecureFiles technology for large objects
  • Build modular PL/SQL applications using procedures, functions, triggers, and packages

Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $37.79
Author: Bob Bryla
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
The Essential Resource for Oracle DBAs--Fully Updated and Expanded

Manage a flexible, highly available Oracle database with help from the expert information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press guide. Fully revised to cover every new feature and utility, Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook shows how to perform a new installation, upgrade from previous versions, configure hardware and software for maximum efficiency, and employ bulletproof security. You will learn to automate the backup and recovery process, provide transparent failover capability, audit and tune performance, and distribute your enterprise databases with Oracle Net.

  • Plan and deploy permanent, temporary, and bigfile tablespaces
  • Optimize disk allocation, CPU usage, I/O throughput, and SQL queries
  • Develop powerful database management applications
  • Guard against human errors using Oracle Flashback and Oracle Automatic Undo Management
  • Diagnose and tune system performance using Oracle Automatic Workload Repository and SQL Tuning Sets
  • Implement robust security using authentication, authorization, fine-grained auditing, and fine-grained access control
  • Maintain high availability using Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Active Data Guard
  • Respond more efficiently to failure scenarios by leveraging the Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository and the Oracle Repair Advisor
  • Back up and restore tables, tablespaces, and databases with Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Data Pump Export and Import
  • Work with networked databases, data warehouses, and VLDBs
  • Put the latest Oracle Database 11g tools to work--Oracle Total Recall, Oracle Flashback Data Archive, and more

 

Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $26.37
Author: Sanjay Mishra
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
ISBN13: 9780596006327
Condition: USED - Acceptable
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The vast majority of Oracle SQL books discuss some syntax, provide the barest rudiments of using Oracle SQL, and perhaps include a few simple examples. It might be enough to pass a survey course, or give you some buzz words to drop in conversation with real Oracle DBAs. But if you use Oracle SQL on a regular basis, you want much more. You want to access the full power of SQL to write queries in an Oracle environment. You want a solid understanding of what's possible with Oracle SQL, creative techniques for writing effective and accurate queries, and the practical, hands-on information that leads to true mastery of the language. Simply put, you want useful, expert best practices that can be put to work immediately, not just non-vendor specific overview or theory.

Updated to cover the latest version of Oracle, Oracle 10g, this new edition of the highly regarded Mastering Oracle SQL has a stronger focus on technique and on Oracle's implementation of SQL than any other book on the market. It covers Oracle s vast library of built-in functions, the full range of Oracle SQL query-writing features, regular expression support, new aggregate and analytic functions, subqueries in the SELECT and WITH clauses, multiset union operators, enhanced support for hierarchical queries: leaf and loop detection, and the CONNECT_BY_ROOT operator, new partitioning methods (some introduced in Oracle9i Release 2), and the native XML datatype, XMLType.

Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition fills the gap between the sometimes spotty vendor documentation, and other books on SQL that just don't explore the full depth of what is possible with Oracle-specific SQL. For those who want to harness the untapped (and often overlooked) power of Oracle SQL, this essential guide for putting Oracle SQL to work will prove invaluable.

Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $40.70
Author: Kevin Loney
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
UPC: 783254043381
Get a thorough understanding of Oracle Database 10g from the most comprehensive Oracle database reference on the market, published by Oracle Press. From critical architecture concepts to advanced object-oriented concepts, this powerhouse contains nearly 50 chapters designed to enlighten you. Upgrade from earlier versions, use SQL, SQL Plus, and PL/SQL. Get code examples and access popular documentation PDFs--plus a full electronic copy of the book on the included CD-ROM. Go beyond the basics and learn security, text searches, external tables, using Java in Oracle, and a great deal more.

OCA/OCP Oracle Database 11g All-in-One Exam Guide with CD-ROM: Exams 1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, 1Z0-053 (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $56.69
Author: John Watson
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

A Fully Integrated Study System for OCA Exams 1Z0-051 and 1Z0-052, and OCP Exam 1Z0-053

Prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Administration I and SQL Fundamentals I exams and the Oracle Certified Professional Administration II exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, and a two-minute drill to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all objectives for exams 1Z0-051, 1Z0-052, and 1Z0-053, including:

  • Instance management
  • Networking and storage
  • Security
  • SQL
  • Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback
  • Oracle Automatic Storage Management
  • Resource manager
  • Oracle Scheduler
  • Automatic workload repository
  • Performance tuning
  • And more

On the CD-ROM:

  • Three full practice exams
  • Detailed answers and explanations
  • Score report performance assessment tool
  • Complete electronic book
  • Three bonus exams available with free online registration