Oracle8i DBA


Book Description

Oracle 8i SQL and PL/SQL Exam Cram is the most recognized, and highly focused, exam preparation product available to professionals gearing up for the Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL exam (1Z0-001). The book's well organized, concise layout provides thorough coverage of test content and objectives like writing basic SQL statements, restricting and sorting data, aggregating data using group functions, creating and managing tables, and writing executable statements. Includes the supportive Exam Cram features of helpful hints and tips, test taking strategies, realistic case studies, and challenging practice questions.




Oracle8i DBA Bible


Book Description

New Internet functionality and support for Linux make Oracle8i a milestone release, and this authoritative guide explains all the tools and techniques administrators need to master this potent new database. Some of the new features covered include an embedded Java Virtual Machine, expanded data warehousing capabilities, and enhanced DBA tools. You'll discover SQL* Plus basics and tools on your way to finding out more about fine-tuning performance and WebDB strategies. The CD-ROM includes a sample Oracle 8i database, sample scripts, and SQL*Plus references.




Oracle8i DBA


Book Description

Oracle 8i Network Administration Exam Cram is the most recognized, and highly focused, exam preparation product available to professionals gearing up for the Oracle 8i Network Administration exam (1Z0-026). The book's well organized, concise layout provides thorough coverage of test content and objectives like identifying key components of Net8 architecture, understanding basic Net8 client-side configuration, centralizing naming concepts, defining the Names server concept, and configuring shared servers using init.ora. Includes the supportive Exam Cram features of helpful hints and tips, test taking strategies, realistic case studies, and challenging practice questions.




Oracle8i DBA Architecture and Administration


Book Description

Oracle 8i Architecture and Administration Exam Cram is the most recognized, and highly focused, exam preparation product available to professionals gearing up for the Oracle 8i Architecture and Administration exam (1Z0-023). The book's well organized, concise layout provides thorough coverage of test content and objectives like managing an Oracle instance, maintaining the control file, storage structure and relationships, and managing data integrity. Includes the supportive Exam Cram features of helpful hints and tips, test taking strategies, realistic case studies, and challenging practice questions.




Oracle8i DBA Handbook


Book Description

Loney does not present a simple revision of his previous bestseller, but instead, provides an enhanced book in many substantial ways such as 8i feature coverage, expansion of Network Oracle sections, screen shots, examples and CD contains useful scripts, utilities, and tools.




Oracle DBA on Unix and Linux


Book Description

Maintain a robust, mission-critical Oracle8i database. This book provides administrative solutions for the day-to-day DBA. You'll learn how to install the database for maximum efficiency, upgrades, patches, migrations, tune, and maintain its security. The book also explains in detail how to build and support a fully functioning Oracle database. This authoritative text contains up-to-date information available on Oracle's latest release and shows you how to: configure database architecture; install and set up with UNIX requirements; create the actual database with scripts; GUI management produc.




OCP: Oracle8i DBA Architecture & Administration and Backup & Recovery Study Guide


Book Description

OCP is Oracle's certification program for database administrators, application developers, and financial consultants. The DBA (database administrator) track is the most popular, with more than 8,000 DBAs being certified each year. Sybex's OCP DBA Study Guides provide complete coverage of exam objectives for the five exams in the DBA track: SQL and PL/SQL, Database Administration, Backup & Recovery, Performance Tuning, and Network Administration. The books are fully up-to-date for Oracle8i and include all the new features of Sybex's best-selling Study Guides. The companion CDs contain exclusive self-testing software. The DBO (database operator) exam is a new offering from Oracle, which prepares students for the full DBA track. It is fully supported by Oracle's partners: Sun, Novell, Compaq, and HP. Sybex's Study Guide provides complete coverage of the exam objectives and includes a companion CD with exclusive self-testing software. Author Lance Mortensen is the author of many best-selling MCSE Study Guides. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.




Practical Oracle8i


Book Description

This guide to using the Oracle database shows readers which features work well, which features work well together, and which features have a serious impact on each other. It should allow the reader to build a better database that runs on a less expensive computer.




Scaling Oracle8i


Book Description

This is the complete, expert guide to building enterprise-class UNIX-based Oracle OLTP systems that deliver maximum performance and scalability. In Scaling Oracle 8i, one of the world's leading Oracle consultants introduces today's best methods and technologies for building industrial-strength Oracle database systems on UNIX platforms. Understand exactly what scalability means in the enterprise; then discover how to deliver it, step-by-step, from the ground up, through design, testing, construction, maintenance, benchmarking, and ongoing management. Morle covers every component that impacts performance, including hashing, caching, hardware architecture and I/O subsystems, Oracle database objects, data storage, memory structures, and a detailed review of the Oracle Parallel Server. Readers will find comprehensive coverage of tuning the underlying UNIX platform to improve OLTP response times; including co-engineering the kernel; working with virtual memory, I/O, interprocess communication; and more. Scaling Oracle 8i contains a full chapter on the special issues associated with e-commerce, as well as a detailed case study drawn from one of the world's largest car rental reservations systems. For all enterprise system architects, database engineers, and application developers working with Oracle.




Vico, Metaphor, and the Origin of Language


Book Description

"... serious scholars of Vico as well as glottogeneticists will find much of value in this excellent monograph." -- New Vico Studies "... a provocative, well-researched argument which might find reapplication in the fields of anthropology, semiotics, archeology, psychology or even philosophy." -- Theological Book Review Danesi returns to the work of the 18th-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico to create a persuasive, original account of the evolution and development of language, one of the deep mysteries of human existence. The Vichian reconstruction of the origin of language is described at length, then evaluated in light of contemporary research in the cognitive, social, and biological sciences.