Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database
11g by Jonathan Stern
Does A Great Job Of Explaining 11G And How To Use It
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 Oracles 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, transparentdata 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, youll 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.
Its a great reference for anyone doing development or management of
Oracle databases. --Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Database
Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation
Personal Review: Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g by
Jonathan Stern
This book is for people of all levels of Oracle experience and includes
database administrators, system administrators, and application
developers. Even though there is some introductory material that more
experienced people might be tempted to skip over, it is probably best to go
through the book from beginning to end just to make sure you don't miss
some minute point of Oracle. It does not try to teach database theory,
though. You need to be familiar with that in a general sense before you
read this book.
The main purpose of this fourth edition is to add information relevant to the
newest release, Oracle Database 11g. Appendix A is handy in that it
contains, in a condensed form, what is new for 11g. The book manage to
concentrate on the most important Oracle issues and principles. It isn't
possible to write one book that encompasses everything about Oracle,
particularly syntax details, so you'll need to refer to Oracle documentation
for complete details. The following is the table of contents of the book,
which is currently not included in the product description:
Chapter 1. Introducing Oracle
Section 1.1. The Evolution of the Relational Database
Section 1.2. The Oracle Database Family
Section 1.3. Summary of Oracle Database Features
Section 1.4. Database Application Development Features
Section 1.5. Database Connection Features
Section 1.6. Distributed Database Features
Section 1.7. Data Movement Features
Section 1.8. Database Performance Features
Section 1.9. Database Management Features

Section 1.10. Database Security Features
Section 1.11. Oracle Development Tools
Section 1.12. Embedded Databases
Chapter 2. Oracle Architecture
Section 2.1. Databases and Instances
Section 2.2. Deploying Physical Components
Section 2.3. Instance Memory and Processes
Section 2.4. The Data Dictionary
Chapter 3. Installing and Running Oracle
Section 3.1. Installing Oracle
Section 3.2. Creating a Database
Section 3.3. Configuring Oracle Net
Section 3.4. Starting Up the Database
Section 3.5. Shutting Down the Database
Section 3.6. Accessing a Database
Section 3.7. Oracle at Work
Chapter 4. Oracle Data Structures
Section 4.1. Datatypes
Section 4.2. Basic Data Structures
Section 4.3. Additional Data Structures
Section 4.4. Extended Logic for Data
Section 4.5. Data Design
Section 4.6. Constraints
Section 4.7. Triggers
Section 4.8. Query Optimization
Section 4.9. Understanding the Execution Plan
Section 4.10. SQL Advisors
Section 4.11. Data Dictionary Tables
Chapter 5. Managing Oracle
Section 5.1. Manageability Features
Section 5.2. Oracle Enterprise Manager
Section 5.3. Fragmentation and Reorganization
Section 5.4. Backup and Recovery
Section 5.5. Working with Oracle Support
Chapter 6. Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance
Section 6.1. Security
Section 6.2. Auditing
Section 6.3. Compliance
Chapter 7. Oracle Performance
Section 7.1. Performance Tuning Basics
Section 7.2. Oracle and Disk I/O Resources
Section 7.3. Oracle and Parallelism
Section 7.4. Oracle and Memory Resources

Section 7.5. Oracle and CPU Resources
Section 7.6. Database Resource Manager
Chapter 8. Oracle Multiuser Concurrency
Section 8.1. Basics of Concurrent Access
Section 8.2. Oracle and Concurrent User Access
Section 8.3. Oracle's Isolation Levels
Section 8.4. Oracle Concurrency Features
Section 8.5. How Oracle Handles Locking
Section 8.6. Concurrent Access and Performance
Section 8.7. Workspaces
Chapter 9. Oracle and Transaction Processing
Section 9.1. OLTP Basics
Section 9.2. Oracle's OLTP Heritage
Section 9.3. Architectures for OLTP
Section 9.4. Oracle Features for OLTP
Section 9.5. High Availability
Section 9.6. Oracle Streams and Advanced Queuing
Section 9.7. Object Technologies and Distributed Components
Chapter 10. Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Section 10.1. Business Intelligence Basics
Section 10.2. Data Warehouse Design
Section 10.3. Query Optimization
Section 10.4. Analytics, OLAP, and Data Mining in the Database
Section 10.5. Managing the Data Warehouse
Section 10.6. Other Software for the Data Warehouse
Section 10.7. The Metadata Challenge
Section 10.8. Best Practices
Chapter 11. Oracle and High Availability
Section 11.1. What Is High Availability?
Section 11.2. System Failure
Section 11.3. Protecting Against System Failure
Section 11.4. Recovering from Failures
Section 11.5. Complete Site Failure
Section 11.6. Data Redundancy Solutions
Section 11.7. Rolling Upgrades
Chapter 12. Oracle and Hardware Architecture
Section 12.1. System Basics
Section 12.2. Uniprocessor Systems
Section 12.3. Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems
Section 12.4. Clusters
Section 12.5. Non-Uniform Memory Access Systems
Section 12.6. Grid Computing
Section 12.7. Disk and Storage Technology
Section 12.8. Which Platform Deployment Solution?

Chapter 13. Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data
Section 13.1. Accessing Multiple Databases As a Single Entity
Section 13.2. Moving Data Between Distributed Systems
Chapter 14. Oracle Extended Datatypes
Section 14.1. Object-Oriented Development
Section 14.2. Extensibility Features and Options
Section 14.3. Using the Extensibility Framework in Oracle
Chapter 15. Beyond the Oracle Database
Section 15.1. Application Express
Section 15.2. Oracle Fusion Middleware
Section 15.3. Oracle SOA Suite
Appendix A. What's New in This Book for Oracle Database 11g
Section A.1. Introducing Oracle
Section A.2. Oracle Architecture
Section A.3. Installing and Running Oracle
Section A.4. Data Structures
Section A.5. Managing Oracle
Section A.6. Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance
Section A.7. Oracle Performance
Section A.8. Oracle Multiuser Concurrency
Section A.9. Oracle and Transaction Processing
Section A.10. Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Section A.11. Oracle and High Availability
Section A.12. Oracle and Hardware Architecture
Section A.13. Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data
Section A.14. Oracle Extended Datatypes
Section A.15. Beyond the Oracle Database
Appendix B. Additional Resources
Section B.1. Web Sites
Section B.2. Books and Oracle Documentation
For More 5 Star Customer Reviews and Lowest Price:
Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g by Jonathan Stern 5 Star Customer Reviews and
Lowest Price!