Expert Oracle Database Architecture 9i& 10g Prog.

This is a defining book on the Oracle database for any developer or DBA who works with Oracle-driven database applications. Tom 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.

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.

Table of contents :
Chapter 1: Developing Successful Oracle Applications
Chapter 2: Architecture Overview
Chapter 3: Files
Chapter 4: Memory Structures
Chapter 5: Oracle Processes
Chapter 6: Locking and Latching
Chapter 7: Concurrency and Multi-Versioning
Chapter 8: Transactions
Chapter 9: Redo and Undo
Chapter 10: Database Tables
Chapter 11: Indexes
Chapter 12: Datatypes
Chapter 13: Partitioning
Chapter 14: Parallel Execution
Chapter 15: Data Loading and Unloading


About Author :
Thomas Kyte is the 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 DBAs struggle with every day.