Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

Name: Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions
Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)

Thomas Kyte

Nov 2006 · Apress

4.8

8 reviews

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768

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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.

Ratings and reviews

4.8

8 reviews

A Google user

As with all of Tom's books, this one provides unbelievable value. I've used this as a reference for benchmarks, POC's and answering customer questions. Better than the manuals (even though there is a wealth of information and they should be mandatory) since Tom rationalizes the cause, effect and benefit of understanding every aspect of Oracle Database architecture. Thank you!

A Google user

November 13, 2009

This Book starts from Memory, Process and ... of Oracle database. I like Tom's Idea. He wrote from his experience.

A Google user

January 29, 2010

A must read book for Oracle Programmers & DBAs

About the author

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.

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