Oracle Essentials [Electronic resources] : Oracle Database 10g, 3rd Edition نسخه متنی

Structure of This Book

This book is divided into fourteen chapters and two appendixes, as
follows:

Chapter 1, Introducing Oracle, briefly describes
the range of Oracle products and provides some history of Oracle and
relational databases.

Chapter 2, Oracle Architecture, describes the
core concepts and structures (e.g., files, processes, and so on) that
are the architectural basis of Oracle8.

Chapter 3, Installing and Running Oracle,
briefly describes how to install Oracle and how
to configure, start up, and shut down the database. It also covers a
variety of networking issues.

Chapter 4, Data Structures, summarizes the
various datatypes supported by Oracle and introduces the Oracle
objects (e.g., tables, views, indexes). It also provides information
about query optimization.

Chapter 5, Managing Oracle, provides an overview
of issues involved in managing an Oracle system, including security,
using the Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) product, and dealing with
database fragmentation and reorganization issues.

Chapter 6, Oracle Performance, describes the
main issues relevant to Oracle performanceespecially the major
performance characteristics of disk, memory, and CPU tuningand
pays special attention to parallelism in Oracle.

Chapter 7, Multiuser Concurrency, describes the
basic principles of multiuser concurrency (e.g., transactions, locks,
integrity problems) and explains how Oracle handles concurrency.

Chapter 8, Oracle and Transaction Processing,
describes online transaction processing (OLTP) in Oracle.

Chapter 9, Oracle and Data Warehousing,
describes the basic principles of data warehouses and business
intelligence configurations and how you can use Oracle to build such
systems.

Chapter 10, Oracle and High Availability,
discusses Oracle's backup and recovery facilities,
including the latest failover and data-redundancy solutions.

Chapter 11, Oracle and Hardware Architecture,
describes how the choice of various types of architectures (e.g.,
uniprocessor, SMP, MPP, NUMA, grid computing) affects Oracle
processing.

Chapter 12, Distributed Databases and Distributed
Data, briefly summarizes the Oracle facilities used in
distributed processingfor example, two-phase commits and
Oracle Streams (Advanced Queuing).

Chapter 13, Extending Oracle Datatypes,
discusses how Oracle provides object-orientation and support of
various media type extensions to the Oracle datatypes and to the
overall processing framework.

Chapter 14, Network Deployment Models, describes
how Oracle is now being used as an Internet computing platform and
for grid computing, and introduces various web-related components,
such as Oracle Application Server, Oracle Portal, and Java.

Appendix A, lists the Oracle Database
10g changes described in this book.

Appendix B, lists a variety of additional
resourcesboth online and offlineso you can do more
detailed reading.