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Oracle database administrators always have plenty on their plate. Oracle8i Administration and Management comes to the rescue with lots of guidance in creating and maintaining Oracle databases and keeping them running at top performance. This is the latest revision of the DBA guide that has previously covered Oracle7 and, more recently, Oracle8. This update adds full coverage of Oracle 8i and includes an integrated discussion of the new version's object-oriented additions to the popular SQL database product. Author Michael R. Ault meticulously goes through the topics administrators care about most, presenting a detailed discussion of the underlying architectural details. By organizing chapters according to administrative functions, such as "Tuning Oracle Applications" and "Database Internals Tuning," Ault has created a text that is quite handy for on-the-spot reference. A number of useful appendices on the companion CD-ROM offer plenty of useful management tidbits, as well as all of the code scripts used in the book and demonstration versions of management utilities. This book uses an easy-to-read style and presents the information in a practical context--for example, this frank tip about installation under SCO Unix: "The server should be configured as an application server and not a file server or performance will not be acceptable." Oracle8i Administration and Management cuts no corners, offering comprehensive coverage of all of the important administrative topics. With its mature content and useful layout, this title is quite a fine DBA companion. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: Installation, administration of tablespaces, tables, indexes and other objects, security, performance tuning, database monitoring, distributed configurations, and backup and recovery.
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