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Announcing a new book from Apress and the OakTable Network:
Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table presents 11 world-renowned industry specialists proffering their own highly experienced views, input, and insights on Oracle-where it's been, where it's going, how (and how not) to use it successfully, the software and techniques that theyve introduced to help people achieve their goals, and some frightening tales of what can happen when fundamental design principles are ignored.
The collaborating authors have solved many of the worst Oracle performance problems in the world, and they've each saved at least one doomed flagship project. Over many years, they've been sharing their unique knowledge with each other at conferences, around the OakTable, and in coffee shops, restaurants, and bars on five continents. Now they want to share their key insights with you.
A major focus of this book concerns the ways in which you can avoid common and debilitating mistakes when building Oracle software projects. From these stories, you'll learn the simple steps that will help you avoid real pain on your next (or current) Oracle project.
List of contents
Section I: Introduction: A Brief History of Oracle - Dave Ensor; Oracle and the OakTable - Mogens Nørgaard.- Section II: Performance and Testing: You Probably Don't Tune Right - Mogens Nørgaard and Anjo Kolk; Waste Not, Want Not - Connor McDonald; Why I Invented YAPP - Anjo Kolk; Extended Trace Data - Cary Millsap; Direct Memory Access - Kyle Hailey; Compulsive Tuning Disorder - Gaja Vaidyanatha; Testing and Risk Management - David Ruthven.- Section III: Architecture and Scalability: Hardcore Parallel Server - James Morle; The RAC Revolution - James Morle; Join The BAARF Party (or Not) - Mogens Nørgaard and James Morle.- Section IV: Dont´t Try this at Home...: Dreadful Design - Jonathon Lewis; Bad CaRMa - Tim Gorman; Blackbox Mayhem - Tom Kyte.
About the author
Cary Millsap is the former vice president of Oracle's System Performance Group and the cofounder of Hotsos (http://www.hotsos.com), a company dedicated to Oracle system performance. Hotsos provides performance-improvement tools for Oracle environments and also delivers training in the form of clinics and the very successful Hotsos symposiums.
Summary
Announcing a new book from Apress and the OakTable Network:
Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table presents 11 world-renowned industry specialists proffering their own highly experienced views, input, and insights on Oracle—where it's been, where it's going, how (and how not) to use it successfully, the software and techniques that theyve introduced to help people achieve their goals, and some frightening tales of what can happen when fundamental design principles are ignored.
The collaborating authors have solved many of the worst Oracle performance problems in the world, and they've each saved at least one doomed flagship project. Over many years, they've been sharing their unique knowledge with each other at conferences, around the OakTable, and in coffee shops, restaurants, and bars on five continents. Now they want to share their key insights with you.
A major focus of this book concerns the ways in which you can avoid common and debilitating mistakes when building Oracle software projects. From these stories, you'll learn the simple steps that will help you avoid real pain on your next (or current) Oracle project.
