Oracle Essentials: Oracle8 & Oracle8i: Oracle8 and Oracle8i

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 system. And as each new version of the database is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies.This book distills the enormous amount of information about what Oracle is, where it came from, and what the latest releases do--and packages it into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations and helpful hints. It explains what's new and important about Oracle's revolutionary releases, Oracle8 (the "object-relational database") and Oracle8i (the "Internet database"). It covers:

• Oracle products, options, and overall architecture
• Installing and running Oracle (creating databases, configuring Net8, starting up and shutting down Oracle)
• Oracle data structures
• Managing Oracle (implementing security, using the Oracle Enterprise Manager, dealing with fragmentation and reorganization, and performing backup and recovery)
• Oracle networking
• Monitoring and tuning
• Multi-user concurrency and online transaction processing (OLTP)
• Special issues for high-availability systems
• Hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, MPP, NUMA) and their impact on Oracle
• Data warehousing
• Distributed databases
• Extensions for Oracle8 and Oracle8i, including the latest Java and web technologies