Lynnwood Brown, Oracle Corporation, Silicon Valley, California

Published June, 1997 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1997, 224 pp.
Paper Bound w/CD-ROM
ISBN 0-13-244666-9
$39.95

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More Oracle databases are deployed on UNIX systems than any other platform, yet most books on Oracle database administration largely ignore the UNIX platform. This book focuses exclusively on Oracle database administration in UNIX environments.

This concise introduction to Oracle database administration on UNIX systems requires no prior database experience. It covers installation, migration, upgrades, networking, security, backup and recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, Oracle GUI development tools, and SQL programming.



Specific database administration techniques for Oracle systems running under UNIX.

• Includes step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the Oracle server.

• Advanced coverage of networking and PL/SQL programming.

• CD-ROM includes multimedia installation and configuration tutorial.

1. Introduction to Database Management Systems.
2. The Architecture.
3. System Installation.
4. Client-Server Communications and SQL*NET.
5. Database Objects, Access, and Security.
6. Database Backup/Recovery.
7. Database Performance Analysis and Tuning.
8. Database Capacity Planning.
9. Application Development for DBAs.
10. Summarizing the Future.

APPENDIXES.

A. Oracle Products.
B. Common UNIX Commands.
C. SQL Reference and Hands-On Labs.
Bibliography.
Index.