Oracle Insights

Oracle is the enterprise database of choice for the majority of businesses (holding 42% of the Unix/Linux and Windows market in 2002). The intent of this book is to present a 'big picture' of Oracle and Oracle development, covering: • How Oracle (and Oracle development), has evolved over the years (from being used to achieve local tactical objectives to a corporate resource used for mission-critical strategic applications) • Landmark projects with which the authors have been involved and lessons learned • Key techniques and processes that emerged along the way, in response to the challenges thrown up by various projects, and their relevance today. Ur innehållet: Section I: Introduction: A Brief History of Oracle - Dave Ensor; Oracle and the OakTable - Mogens Nørgaard.- Section II: Performance and Testing: You Probably Don't Tune Right - Mogens Nørgaard and Anjo Kolk; Waste Not, Want Not - Connor McDonald; Why I Invented YAPP - Anjo Kolk; Extended Trace Data - Cary Millsap; Direct Memory Access - Kyle Hailey; Compulsive Tuning Disorder - Gaja Vaidyanatha; Testing and Risk Management - David Ruthven.- Section III: Architecture and Scalability: Hardcore Parallel Server - James Morle; The RAC Revolution - James Morle; Join The BAARF Party (or Not) - Mogens Nørgaard and James Morle.- Section IV: Dont´t Try this at Home...: Dreadful Design - Jonathon Lewis; Bad CaRMa - Tim Gorman; Blackbox Mayhem - Tom Kyte.