Book Review: Oracle Essentials and Oracle8i Internal Services

[Brandon Gohsman]

Greeting everyone,

I am trying something new with our book options from O'Reilly; Rather than
stockpile them until the next meeting, I figured that I would post them to
the list as they became available. If anyone is interested in a given book,
simply reply. If no one replies, no book.

Also, if anyone feels that this is an inappropriate use of the list, let me
know and we can try something else.

Thanks,

Brandon Gohsman
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November 1, 1999
O'Reilly Releases Oracle Essentials and Oracle8i Internal Services
SEBASTOPOL, CA-Oracle is an enormous system, with myriad technologies,
options, and releases. Most users-even experienced developers and
database administrators-find it difficult to get a handle on the full
scope of the Oracle system. O'Reilly & Associates has just made it
easier by releasing Oracle Essentials: Oracle8 & Oracle8i.
Oracle Essentials provides an invaluable, all-in-one introduction to
the full range of Oracle features and technologies. It distills the
enormous amount of information about what Oracle is, where it came
from, and what the latest releases do.
Oracle Essentials explains what's new and important about Oracle's
revolutionary releases, Oracle8 (the "object-relational database") and
Oracle 8i (the "Internet database"). It covers Oracle products, overall
architecture, data structures, and system management and tuning. It
describes multiuser concurrency, OLTP, high availability, data
warehousing, distributed databases, and extensions for Oracle8 and
Oracle8i, including the latest Java and Web technologies. Oracle
Essentials also includes an appendix full of references to additional
online and offline resources.
Another recently released Oracle title, Oracle8i Internal Services for
Waits, Latches, Locks and Memory, is aimed especially at administrators
and developers who need detailed internal information to do advanced
performance tuning.
Oracle 8i Internal Services lays a foundation for advanced performance
tuning of the Oracle database. Based on Oracle8i release 8.1, the book
describes many of the secrets of Oracle's internal services: data
structures, algorithms, and undocumented Oracle system statistics. Main
topics are: waits, latches, locks (including instance locks, used in
parallel server environments), and Oracle's use of memory.
For more information about Oracle Essentials, including Table of
Contents, index, author bios, online resources, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oressentials/
To see Chapter 7 of Oracle Essentials, Multiuser Concurrency , go to:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oressentials/chapter/ch07.html
For a cover graphic in jpeg format go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565927087.jpg
For more information about Oracle8i Internal Services, including Table
of Contents, index, author bio, online resources, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orinternals/
To see Chapter 1of Oracle 8i Internal Services go to:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orinternals/chapter/ch01.html
For cover graphic in jpeg format go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/156592598x.jpg
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Oracle Essentials: Oracle 8 & Oracle8i
By Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak & Jonathan Stern
1st Edition October 1999
374 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-708-7, $34.95