Oracle essentials

The second edition of O'Reilly's bestselling guide has been updated for Oracle9i, distilling extensive information about Oracle's technologies into a compact, easy-to-read format with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. Oracle9i introduces significant upgrades over Oracle8i, featuring Real Application Clusters, flashback queries, Oracle personalization, clickstream intelligence, and enhanced caching capabilities. It also offers improvements in business intelligence, XML integration, high availability, and management features. The book covers key topics including Oracle products, architecture, installation, and database creation. It explains configuring Net8, managing data structures, security, and using the Oracle Enterprise Manager. Additionally, it addresses fragmentation, backup and recovery, networking, monitoring, tuning, multi-user concurrency, online transaction processing (OLTP), and hardware architecture impacts on Oracle. For new users, DBAs, developers, and managers, this guide serves as an all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features, including those of Oracle9i. Even seasoned users will find this compact book invaluable as a go-to reference for Oracle's extensive documentation.