This is a defining book on the Oracle database for any developer or DBA who works with Oracle-driven database applications. The book is fully revised and covers both the 9i and 10g versions of the database (up to and including 10g Release 2). Thus you have a one-stop resource containing deep wisdom on the design, development and administration of Oracle applications, from one of the World's foremost Oracle experts, Tom Kyte. It covers every important feature and function of the database, explaining why it is important, how it works, how you should use it, and what can happen if you do things the wrong way. It is unique in terms of the technical depth and insight that it provides on each topic.

This book will show you how to program correctly with the database and exploit its feature-set effectively. As a result, you will be able to build fast, effective, scalable and secure Oracle applications.

Autorentext
Thomas Kyte is vice president of the Core Technologies Group at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.0.9 was released in 1993. Kyte, however, has been working with Oracle since version 5.1.5c. At Oracle, Kyte works with the Oracle database, and more specifically, he helps clients who are using the Oracle database and works directly with them specifying and building their systems or rebuilding and tuning them. Prior to working at Oracle, Kyte was a systems integrator who built large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications for military and government clients.Tom Kyte is the same "Ask Tom" whose column appears in Oracle Magazine, where he answers questions about the Oracle database and tools that developers and database administrators struggle with every day.

Klappentext

• Based on a proven best-seller and written by the most recognized Oracle expert in the world and f

• Fully revised book, covering bothfor the 9i and 10g versions of the database

• Based on what is widely-recognized as the best Oracle book ever written. It defines what Oracle really is, and why it is so powerful

• Inspired by the thousands of questions Tom has answered on his http://asktom.oracle.com site. It defines what Oracle really is, and why it is so powerful It and it tackles the problems that developers and DBAs struggle with every day

Zusammenfassung

This is a defining book on the Oracle database for any developer or database administrator who works with Oracle-driven database applications. Tom Kyte has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter, then you will find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly.

Expert Oracle Database Architecture is the first of a three-book series that completely explores and defines the Oracle database. It covers all of the most important Oracle architecture features, including:

• Files, memory structures and processes
• Locking and latching
• Transactions, concurrency and multi-versioning
• Tables and Indexes
• Datatypes
• Partitioning and parallelism
  Each feature is taught in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing what it is, but also how it works, how to implement software using it, and the common pitfalls associated with it.

This fully revised edition covers both the 9i and 10g versions. It also comes with a CD containing a searchable PDF of the 8i version of the book.

Tom has fully revised and expanded the architecture-related sections from Expert One-on-One Oracle (a searchable PDF of which is included on the CD accompanying this book), and added substantial new material. He focuses solely on 9i and 10g architecture in this book and refers to the CD for 8i-specific details. The number of changes will surprise you.

In summary, this book provides a one-stop resource containing deep wisdom on the design, development and administration of Oracle applications, written by one of the world's foremost Oracle experts, Thomas Kyte.

Inhalt
Developing Successful Oracle Applications.- Architecture Overview.- Files.- Memory Structures.- Oracle Processes.- Locking and Latching.- Concurrency and Multi-Versioning.- Transactions.- Redo and Undo.- Database Tables.- Indexes.- Datatypes.- Partitioning.- Parallel Execution.- Data Loading and Unloading.