Oracle databases

Learn from Experts Who Know
Inside, you will find real world technical advice and industry insight taken from the authors' years of experience with Oracle system architecture. Whether you manage a team of Oracle professionals or administer an Oracle database, this book contains the background and development tools that you need to get the most out of your Oracle database.

Maximize Your Operational Availability
Learn what industry experts and analysts are saying about today's e-commerce applications and the level of availability that is recommended to avoid significant revenue loss. Find out which steps you need to take to maximize your availability.

Successfully Implement Your Oracle Database
Follow along as the authors provide a set of guidelines that should be considered during an Oracle implementation. Whether you are installing your first database or migrating from an existing database, their comprehensive set of database design and development recommendations will take you from the initial developmental cycle well into production and maintenance.

Find the Platform that is Right for You
Learn how Windowsr NT/2000 compares to Unixr as an Oracle server platform. Follow along as the authors cover the architecture common to each system and then explain where that commonality ends, including dedicated database activity tasks, the thread/process model of Microsoftr, and even how to develop Oracle for Linuxr as a Unix substitute.

Now you can take the guesswork out of managing Oracle hardware and software. This comprehensive guide covers issues that Oracle DBAs must deal with on a daily basis, including high data availability, disaster recovery, and database management.

Contents

Introduction
Part I: Implementing Your Oracle Database
1. Overview of Oracle Databases
2. Administrating the Lifecycle of an Oracle Database
3. The Oracle Database Administrator
4. Understanding Oracle Licenses
5. What's Oracle 8i all about?
6. Preparing for Installation
7. Installing Oracle-Step by Step!

Part II: Maintaining Your Oracle Database
8. Understanding Problems, Risks, and Errors
9. Choosing Manual or Automatic Database Management
10. Maintaining Your Oracle Database with 5-Nines
11. Monitoring Your Oracle Database
12. Analyzing, Tuning, and Reporting on Oracle
13. Planning for Disaster Recovery
14. Replicating Oracle Databases

Part III: Supporting and Documenting Your Oracle Database
15. Oracle Support and Publications
16. WWW Dot Oracle Dot Com
17. More WWW Dot Oracle Dot Com
18. What Does It Take to Be an
A. DBATemplates and Checklists
B. Usage, Performance, and Other Oracle Scripts
Glossary
Index