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Written by Oracle insiders, this indispensable guide distills an enormous amount of information about the Oracle Database into one compact volume. Ideal for novice and experienced DBAs, developers, managers, and users, Oracle Essentials walks you through technologies and features in Oracle's product line, including its architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, and tuning.
Complete with illustrations and helpful hints, this fifth edition provides a valuable one-stop overview of Oracle Database 12c, including an introduction to Oracle and cloud computing. Oracle Essentials provides the conceptual background you need to understand how Oracle truly works.
Topics include: A complete overview of Oracle databases and data stores, and Fusion Middleware products and features Core concepts and structures in Oracle's architecture, including pluggable databases Oracle objects and the various datatypes Oracle supports System and database management, including Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Security options, basic auditing capabilities, and options for meeting compliance needs Performance characteristics of disk, memory, and CPU tuning Basic principles of multiuser concurrency Oracle's online transaction processing (OLTP) Data warehouses, Big Data, and Oracle's business intelligence tools Backup and recovery, and high availability and failover solutions
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing Oracle
Chapter 2: Oracle Architecture
Chapter 3: Installing and Running Oracle
Chapter 4: Oracle Data Structures
Chapter 5: Managing Oracle
Chapter 6: Oracle Security, Auditing, and Compliance
Chapter 7: Oracle Performance
Chapter 8: Oracle Multiuser Concurrency
Chapter 9: Oracle and Transaction Processing
Chapter 10: Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Chapter 11: Oracle and High Availability
Chapter 12: Oracle and Hardware Architecture
Chapter 13: Oracle Distributed Databases and Distributed Data
Chapter 14: Oracle Extended Datatypes
Chapter 15: Oracle and the Cloud
What's New in This Book for Oracle Database 12c
Additional Resources
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About the author
Rick Greenwald has worked in the IT field for over 20 years for major vendors, including Oracle, Gupta Technologies, Cognos, and Data General.
Robert Stackowiak is Vice President of Business Intelligence in Oracle's Technology Business Unit. He has worked for over 20 years in business intelligence, data warehousing, and IT-related roles at Oracle, IBM, Harris Corporation, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His papers regarding business intelligence and computer and software technology have appeared in publications such as President&CEO Magazine, Database Trends and Applications, and The Data Warehousing Institute's publications.
Summary
Ideal for novice and experienced DBAs, developers, managers, and users, Oracle Essentials walks you through technologies and features in Oracle's product line, including its architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, and tuning.
