Oracle Books
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Oracle Programming
by Sean Dillon, Christopher Beck , Thomas Kyte , Joel Kallman (Contributor), Howard Rogers
* Oracle terminology, tools, concepts, and architecture
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Oracle Essentials : Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 (2nd Edition)
by Rick Greenwald, Jonathan Stem , Robert Stackowiak, Debby Russell , Jonathan Stern Paperback - 450 pages 2nd edition (June 15, 2001) O'Reilly & Associates Oracle Essentials distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle's myriad technologies and releases into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. Oracle9i promises to be an even more significant upgrade than Oracle8i, offering such major features as Real Application Clusters, flashback queries, Oracle personalization, clickstream intelligence, and Oracle Database Cache and Web Cache; it also promises significant improvements in Oracle's business intelligence, XML integration, high availability, and management capabilities. The book includes overviews of these features, as well as the new Oracle9I Application Server (Oracle9iAS) and Oracle9i Portal. The book contains chapters on:
For new Oracle users, DBAs, developers, and managers, Oracle Essentials is an all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features and technologies, including the just-released Oracle9i features. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation, this compact book is the one you'll turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.
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Advanced Oracle PL/SQL: Programming With Packages
By: Steven Feuerstein, Debby Russell Paperback - 690 pages (December 1996) O'Reilly & Associates Expands on Feuerstein's first book, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, taking you deep into the world of PL/SQL packages. Includes PL/Vision shareware library of packages. Demonstrates how to construct and properly build PL/SQL packages, providing a full-use shareware version of PL/Vision and a library of dozens of packages written by the author on the companion disk. Original. (Advanced). |
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Advanced PowerBuilder 7 Techniques
By: Simon Gallagher, Simon Gallaher, Simo Herbert, Ken Reppart, Joe Quick Paperback - 896 pages (August 27, 1999) John Wiley & Sons This latest edition of the #1 guide to advanced PowerBuilder techniques reveals powerful solutions to hard-core programming problems. From building business logic with User Objects, to creating layout forms with the HTML DataWindow, it offers step-by-step guidance on mastering the latest features of PowerBuilder 7. And, like its critically-acclaimed predecessor, it is loaded with proven, hard-to-find programming techniques, ready-to-run code, and real-world examples. The authors show how to: Dev elop applications using PowerBuilder's new and improved user interfaceProgram using PowerBuilder Foundation ClassesBuild advanced applications with integrated Internet tools Develop robust, scaleable distributed applications with Jaguar CTSDevelop Distributed PowerBuilder (DPB) applications Interface with Microsoft Messaging API, Open Repository CASE API, Word, Excel, Windows SDK, and version control softwareSolve network and performance problems Test and debug PowerBuilder applications. CD-ROM includes: Source code from the book HOW 3.0 Learning Edition demo |
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Basic PowerBuilder 7.0 Programming
By: Chetney Hieber Spiral-bound - 625 pages (August 1, 1999) Envision Software Systems Taken from our five day Basic PowerBuilder course, this book provides a hands-on introduction to all aspects of application development with PowerBuilder. Each component is covered in the context of using PowerBuilder to develop Windows-based, client/server production business applications. The topics are reinforced through a series of hands-on lab exercises in which the reader creates a fully functional PowerBuilder application. The lab setup and solution diskette included with the book provide s the files required to perform the hands-on labs, and includes a set of solutions to the lab exercises for student review. An instructor kit is provided, the kit includes the PowerPoint Slides and the instructor notes. This is the most popular PowerBuilder courseware on the market. |
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Building Data Mining Applications for CRM
By: Alex Berson, Kurt Thearling, Stephen J. Smith Paperback - 488 pages (December 10, 1999) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Are you fully harnessing the power of information to support management and marketing decisions? You will, with this one-stop guide to choosing the right tools and technologies for a state-of-the-art data management strategy built on a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) framework. Authors Alex Berson, Stephen Smith, and Kurt Thearling help you understand the principles of data warehousing and data mining systems, and carefully spell out techniques for applying them so that your business gets the biggest pay-off possible. Find out about Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools that quickly navigate within your collected data. Explore privacy and legal issues...evaluate current data mining application packages...and let real-world examples show you how data mining can impact -- and improve -- all of your key business processes. Start uncovering your best prospects and offering them the products they really want (not what you think they want)! |
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Building Oracle XML Applications
By: Steve Muench Paperback - 792 pages CD-ROM edition (October 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Oracle Corporation, committed to supporting XML in a wide range of products, has XML-enabled its entire Oracle Internet platform--the Oracle8i database, Oracle interMedia, Oracle Application Server, and a variety of other products. Building Oracle XML Applications, by Steve Muench, Oracle's lead "XML evangelist" and a key Oracle XML developer, gives Java and PL/SQL developers a rich and detailed look at the many tools Oracle has provided to support XML development, such as the Oracle XML Parser, the Oracle XML SQL Utility, and the XSQL Servlet. The company describes Oracle8i as "the first XML enabled database." This book shows how to combine the power of XML and XSLT with the speed, functionality, and reliability of the Oracle database to build flexible applications. The author delivers nearly 800 pages of entertaining text, helpful and time-saving hints, and extensive examples that developers can put to use immediately to build custom XML applications. |
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CGI Programming with Perl (2nd Edition)
By: Scott Guelich, Linda Mui, Gunther Birznieks, Shishir Gundavaram Paperback - 470 pages 2nd edition (July 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Explains how to use the common gateway interface (CGI) to create and deliver dynamic content on the web. The second edition has been rewritten to demonstrate current techniques available with the CGI.pm module and the latest versions of Perl. Programming on the Web today can involve any of several technologies, but the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) has held its ground as the most mature method--and one of the most powerful ones--of providing dynamic web content. CGI is a generic interface for c alling external programs to crunch numbers, query databases, generate customized graphics, or performing any other server-side task. |
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Core Python Programming (Prentice Hall Ptr Core Series)
By: Wesley J. Chun Paperback - 810 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) Prentice Hall A quick guide to everything anyone would want to know about the soaringly popular Internet programming language, Python. Provides an introduction to new features introduced in Python 1.6, and topics covered include regular expressions, extending Python, and OOP. The CD-ROM includes the source code for all of the examples in the text. |
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DBA's Guide to Databases Under Linux
By: Paul C. Zikopoulos Paperback - 485 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Syngress Media Inc The stability and reliability of the Linux operating system makes it an ideal platform on which to operate databases. Increasingly, major software vendors are designing their applications to run on Linux. DBA's Guide to Databases on Linux walks you through the installation and configuration of several major databases on Linux and provides a working example of an e-commerce Web site. Major commercial databases such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, DB2 and Progress are covered in depth as well as the widely used freeware databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL. DBA's Guide to Databases on Linux is the ultimate resource and comparative reference for any DBA managing databases on Linux. This book is intended primarily for database administrators and Linux users who want to improve their skills and understanding of various databases. We hope you will come away with a better understanding of database design and implementation in general. This book will give you a better understanding of the Linux operating system when it is used as a database server. |
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Data Mining Cookbook: Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management By: Olivia Parr Rud Paperback - 367 pages 1 edition (November 3, 2000) John Wiley & Sons CD-ROM contains the actual models that are described in the book, providing examples of the most commonly asked data mining questions regarding marketing, sales, and customer support applications. Complete working code written in SAS, the most popular mining modeling language, is also provided. Readers can use the CD-ROM to directly implement the models for business use--resulting in better campaigns, improved customer service, and increased profits. A step-by-step guide showing how to create and implement models of the most commonly asked mining questions from a variety of disciplines. Provides proven techniques and numerous case studies that detail available data sources for developing target models. A walk through entire process of a data mining project. |
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Data Mining: Building Competitive Advantage
By: Robert Groth Textbook Binding - 266 pages (October 18, 1999) Prentice Hall This text, Data Mining: Building Competitive Advantage, resulted from the revelation that data mining is becoming mainstream and that there are few books about data mining devoted to the business professional. It provides an innovative, easy approach to learning data mining for business professionals, students, and consultants. The CD-ROM at the back of the book makes learning data mining a hands-on activity. You can try out different software packages available for data mining and learn how these tools are being used to solve industry problems. This book focuses on how knowledge discovery is used in different industries, and discusses several of the data-mining software products available. Sample studies are provided for specific industries, including retail, banking, insurance, and healthcare. This text takes a different approach to introducing data mining than the academic books currently on the market. The focus of this book is on industry applications, discussions of specific business problems, and a hands-on teaching style to demonstrate how tools can be used to attain business benefit. |
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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
By: Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber Hardcover - 500 pages (August 2000) Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Here's the resource you need if you want to apply today's most powerful data mining techniques to meet real business challenges. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques equips you with a sound understanding of data mining principles and teaches you proven methods for knowledge discovery in large corporate databases. Written expressly for database practitioners and professionals, this book begins with a conceptual introduction designed to get you up to speed. This is followed by a comprehensive and state-of-the-art coverage of data mining concepts and techniques. Each chapter functions as a stand-alone guide to a critical topic, presenting proven algorithms and sound implementations ready to be used directly or with strategic modification against live data. Wherever possible, the authors raise and answer questions of utility, feasibility, optimization, and scalability, keeping your eye on the issues that will affect your project's results and your overall success. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques is the master reference that practitioners and researchers have long been seeking. It is also the obvious choice for academic and professional classrooms. |
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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations
By: H. Witten, Eibe Frank Paperback - 416 pages (October 13, 1999) Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Data mining techniques are used to power intelligent software, both on and off the Internet. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools explains the magic behind information extraction in a book that succeeds at bringing the latest in computer science research to any IS manager or developer. In addition, this book provides an opportunity for the authors to showcase their powerful reusable Java class library for building custom data mining software.This text is remarkable with its comprehensive review of recent research on machine learning, all told in a very approachable style. (While there is plenty of math in some sections, the authors' explanations are always clear.) The book tours the nature of machine learning and how it can be used to find predictive patterns in data comprehensible to managers and developers alike. And they use sample data (for such topics as weather, contact lens prescriptions, and flowers) to illustrate key concepts. After setting out to explain the types of machine learning models (like decision trees and classification rules), the book surveys algorithms used to implement them, plus strategies for improving performance and the reliability of results. Later the book turns to the authors' downloadable Weka (rhymes with "Mecca") Java class library, which lets you experiment with data mining hands-on and gets you started with this technology in custom applications. Final sections look at the bright prospects for data mining and machine learning on the Internet (for example, in Web search engines). |
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Data Modeling with ERwin
By: Carla DeAngelis Paperback - 410 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Sams A guide to the use of ERwin--a visual data modeling tool that supports logical and physical data modeling. The program supports the design of large, complex enterprise models by dividing them into smaller more manageable subject areas which allows multiple views of the same subject area. After describing the basics of modeling concepts and the program, the author explains how to use ERwin to create a logical model that represents necessary information requirements and business rules. Finally the use of database administration for developing physical models is explained. From the first chapter, author Carla DeAngelis skillfully explains the normally complex concepts of Data Modeling-a critical success factor in the information-based enterprises of today. Carla tackles complex topics such as Logical Data Models, Modeling Methodologies, Relationships, and Attributes in a clear style that makes it simple for anyone to begin applying them immediately. Once the foundation has been laid, Carla teaches you to develop your own databases with ERwin. |
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Data Warehouse Design Solutions
By: Christopher Adamson, Michael Venerable Paperback - 544 pages 1 edition (June 29, 1998) John Wiley & Sons Data warehouses store millions of records, allowing managers to ask the big-picture questions about their businesses. The authors of Data Warehouse Design Solutions share their expertise in designing successful data warehouses and concentrate on understanding business processes within a variety of industries. First, the authors outline the promise--and potential hurdles--of data warehousing. They thoroughly explain the idea of dimensional data, which is used to represent the quantities or attributes that can be queried in a data warehouse. The authors argue that data warehouses need to adapt to changing business conditions and often must be more flexible than planned. They advise building the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) as a series of interlocking data marts (which contain different dimensions). Developers can build part of a solution and add new data marts later. The result is a more adaptable approach to warehousing data. The heart of Data Warehouse Design Solutions is the descriptions of data warehouses tailored to specific industries--sales, marketing, fulfillment, production, inventory, and capacity--using real-world businesses. The authors offer business models, sample dimensions, database schema, and sample reports for each business area. Later chapters discuss more advanced areas for data warehousing, including budget tracking, financial reporting (and managerial accounting), and even how to look at profitability and intellectual capital. The authors round out their nuts-and-bolts tour of today's businesses with a summary of the various measures that fit each type of organization. Finally, the authors come back to theory, with some ideas on building effective systems that are fast and that generate easy-to-read reports. The last chapter argues convincingly that their incremental approach to building data warehousing has some distinct advantages. |
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Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling
By: Robert J. Muller Paperback - 464 pages (February 1999) Morgan Kaufmann Publishers If you want to see how your next database project can profit from object-oriented design, check out Database Design for Smarties, a lively and intelligent guide to using objects in databases. The book begins with a tour of some underlying factors in modeling databases. Here, the author distinguishes between the external, conceptual, and internal models of database design.) Then it's on to data architectures, be they the traditional relational or the newer object-relational and object-oriented (OO) database types. After discussing some of the pitfalls of gathering and implementing user requirements, the author looks at UML notation for use case diagrams. (His example here, a crime database for tracking Sherlock Holmes's stories, along with criminals and clues, is both intelligent and entertaining.) The author's guide to UML class design is topnotch. He covers basic and advanced OO concepts such as inheritance, aggregation, composition, and polymorphism with clear and concise explanations. He also shows you how to model business rules using objects and UML class diagrams. The most valuable part of this book comes with the mapping of UML class diagrams onto three different kinds of databases: relational (on Oracle7), object-relational (on Oracle8), and object-oriented (on the POET platform). The author shows how to emulate object-oriented ideas successfully using stored procedures and triggers, even if you are not running on a "true" object-oriented platform. |
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Database Programming with JDBC and Java, 2nd Edition
By: George Reese Paperback - 352 pages 2nd edition (August 25, 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Java and databases make a powerful combination. Getting the two sides to work together, however, takes some effort--largely because Java deals in objects while most databases do not. This book describes the standard Java interfaces that make portable object-oriented access to relational databases possible and offers a robust model for writing applications that are easy to maintain. It introduces the JDBC and RMI packages and uses them to develop three-tier applications (applications divided into a user interface, an object- oriented logic component, and an information store). The book begins with a quick overview of SQL for developers who may be asked to handle a database for the first time. It then explains how to issue database queries and updates through SQL and JDBC. It also covers the use of stored procedures and other measures to improve efficiency, where these are available. But the book's key contribution is a set of patterns that let developers isolate critical tasks like object creation, information storage and retrieval, and the committing or aborting of transactions. The second edition includes more basics of JDBC and SQL, with more examples, and a deeper discussion about the architecture of a robust, maintainable database application. The second edition also explains the relationship between JDBC and Enterprise JavaBeans. |
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e-Business for the Oracle DBA
By: Meghraj Thakkar Paperback - 384 pages 1st edition (August 17, 2001) Sams This book focuses on discussing the issues that a DBA would face in extending existing systems for eBusiness. The book also discusses how DBAs can prepare themselves for the challenge. An example business 'DOeBIZ Corporation' is used to help the reader understand the various issues involved and how an Oracle DBA can deal with them. |
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E-Commerce Applications Using Oracle8i and Java From Scratch (From Scratch)
By: Meghraj Thakkar, Jesse Liberty Paperback - 400 pages 1 edition (March 27, 2000) Que Thakkar, a software engineer for Quest, shows how to create a web- enabled database application using the Java features of Oracle8i, reviewing the issues in such a project and suggesting ideas for using the Internet capabilities of Oracle8i to resolve those issues. An online coffee shop is used as an example project throughout the book to demonstrate analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment. In Building e-Commerce Database Applications Using Oracle8i and Java from scratch, Meghraj Thakkar takes novice web programmers through the process of creating a web-enabled database application. You will look at the requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment of an "Online Coffee Shop" from scratch. You will also learn to create database objects (tables and indexes), populate the database, and use SQL, PL/SQL and Java to manipulate the data. e-Commerce Applications Using Oracle8i and Java From Scratch (From Scratch) |
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Enterprise Components and PowerBuilder 7, The Definitive Guide
By: Kouros Gorgani Paperback - 500 pages 1 edition (July 1999) The roMO Technology Group This comprehensive guide focuses on developing Web and component-based applications with PowerBuilder 7. With an experts look at the mechanics of the software, this complete reference shows how to develop powerful, industrial-strength applications that can access data-aware components in distributed PowerBuilder, Jaguar Component Transaction Server, and Microsoft Transaction Server. In addition, you'll learn how to take advantage of the Enterprise Application Studio to build and deploy enterprise Web, distributed, and client/server applications. The online web site is packed with sample applications, source code, reference material, as well as links to author's other articles. Some of the topics covered in this book are: Developing Component-centric Applications, Building Jaguar CTS Components/Clients, Building COM/MTS Components/Clients, Building and Using Java Components, Automation Servers, Remote Debugging, Using the JavaBeans Proxy, Introduction to Java, Java for PowerScripters, Web Development and Deployment Kit, DataWindow Web Control, OLE DB, JDBC, CORBA, Adaptive SQL Anywhere, Adaptive Server Enterprise, and lots more. |
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Essential Guide to Peoplesoft Development and Customization
By: Tony Delia, Galina Landres, Isidor Rivera, Prakash Sankaran Paperback - 1104 pages (August 2000) Manning Publications Company The Essential Guide to PeopleSoft Development and Customization is an exhaustive, as well as practical, guide that covers PeopleSoft 7.5 and many new features in release 8.0. Both novice and experienced programmers will benefit from the detailed coverage of topics ranging from the basics of Application Designer to the proper use of PeopleCode within the Application Processor. The book serves as both a reference and a tutorial and covers advanced topics that other books avoid. The reader can gain valuable expertise by following the exercises and building sample applications and utilities. Extensive coverage of PeopleCode including scroll and function library examples can be found as well as methodology behind customization and upgrades. Discover how to effectively utilize SQR and Process Scheduler. Master various levels of PeopleSoft security. Most developers won't touch PeopleSoft COBOL programs with a ten foot pole. Expand your horizons by uncovering the secrets of PeopleSoft COBOL an d the PTPSQLRT module and even walk through a sample customization. Application Engine is a powerful PeopleTool - but one of the least understood. Through a series of simple but effective exercises the reader will learn Application Engine concepts such as dynamic SQL, decision logic and dynamic sections. A useful Application Engine utility is produced that will enhance the delivered Process Scheduler panels. This book takes a soup-to-nuts approach leading the reader through the full cycle of app lication development. |
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Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing: Designing, Building, and Managing Oracle Data Warehouses
By: Gary Dodge, Tim Gorman, W. H. Inmon Paperback - 928 pages 2 edition (September 6, 2000) John Wiley & Sons A soup-to-nuts guide to building and managing high-performance Oracle8i data warehouses In an effort to help companies manage what Information Week has referred to as the "Web Data Deluge," Oracle has released Oracle8i (the "i" stands for "Internet"), a major upgrade to their flagship database product that provides powerful new data warehousing capabilities. In this updated and expanded edition of their critically acclaimed Oracle8 Data Warehousing, Gary Dodge and Tim Gorman provide database developers and administrators with complete, detailed coverage of all they need to know to build and manage a fast, high-performance data warehouse using the Oracle8i technology. Step-by-step, they cover all the bases, including designing a data warehouse for optimum performance, building a data warehouse, loading data into the data warehouse, improving warehouse performance with aggregate data, and administering data warehouse performance. |
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Expert One on One: Oracle
By: Thomas Kyte Perfect Paperback - 1265 pages (June 2001) Wrox Press Inc Tom Kyte is of a rare breed. To begin, he's technically expert in his subject (administration of and development of applications for Oracle database management systems). What's more (and what distinguishes him from the ranks of the super-competent), he is both able and willing to share his considerable store of wisdom with Oracle users via books like Expert One on One: Oracle. Perhaps the best book about Oracle products ever put out, this book is a model of all aspects of technical publishing: scope, level of detail, clarity of explanations, and quality of examples. It's pretty much certain that you will learn a great deal about Oracle from Kyte's work, and that you'll become more capable in your work as a result of studying this book. Kyte - it's very tempting to call him an Oracle oracle - seems not to have had to struggle to fit his message into the Wrox Press form, which relies on a running commentary interspersed with code listings and conceptual diagrams. Kyte's commentary is eminently informed and packed with references to the differences between that which is ideal and that which often must be done to accommodate reality. He takes care to explain how little-known pieces of the Oracle environment - and alternative ways of looking at the more familiar ones - solve problems, an approach that leads to elegant, efficient solutions. Kyte boosts his readers across the chasm that separates people who can write applications for Oracle databases from people who understand Oracle databases. |
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High Performance Oracle Data Warehousing
By: Donald Burleson Paperback - 540 pages (July 1997) The Coriolis Group High Performance Oracle Data Warehousing takes readers beyond the basics, showing them how to create compact, efficient, lightning-fast data warehouse systems with Oracle. The CD-ROM contains all examples and source code used in the book, including SQL scripts, optimized database tables, templates, and more. High Performance Oracle Data Warehousing provides everything that the Oracle developer and DBA need to know to design and implement fast and functional Oracle data warehouses. Using proven techniques from actual systems, this book is full of practical tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Oracle architecture and ensuring maximum performance from the data warehouse. You'll also find advance information on the eagerly awaited Oracle8. And unlike other books on data warehousing, High Performance Oracle Data Warehousing contains invaluable information and actual code examples that demonstrate the use of Oracle data warehouse features. |
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Implementing and Managing Oracle Databases
By: Steve Lemme, John R. Colby Paperback - 418 pages (February 2001) Premier Press, Inc Oracle database administration goes far beyond installation and tuning of the database - topics covered by the majority of books on the market. As DBAs become more involved in the business process, architecture, and planning, there may be more to do up front, but the end result is less chaotic. To better prepare those who are up to the new eBusiness challenges, the chapters in this book have been organized with information to not only provide IT professionals with information that can be applied for a more challenging and successful career, but also for those companies who are trying to attract and retain them. |
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JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, Second Edition: Universal Data Access for the Java 2 Platform (Java Series)
By: Seth White, Maydene Fisher, Rick Cattell, Graham Hamilton, Mark Hapner Paperback - 1059 pages 2nd edition (June 11, 1999) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Provides a definitive description of the JDBC API, the technology that enables universal data access for the Java programming language. Combines a step-by-step tutorial with a comprehensive reference to all of the classes and interface, and gives in-depth explanations that go beyond the specification. Offers an introduction for those new to the Java programming language and to SQL, then walks through creating a JDBC application, with many examples, and discusses advanced topics. This book provides the definitive description of the JDBC(tm) API, the technology that enables universal data access for the Java(tm) programming language. This new edition has been updated and expanded to cover all of the JDBC 2.0 API, including the JDBC 2.0 core API and the JDBC Standard Extension API, the package that facilitates building server-side applications. |
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JDBC Developer's Resource: Database Programming on the Internet
By: Art Taylor Paperback - 648 pages 2nd edition (January 15, 1999) Prentice Hall For every computer subject, there must be a large, shelf-straining tome that attempts to cover everything about the subject and more. JDBC Developer's Resource fills that niche for JDBC. Taylor's book opens with information about the Java language, including the now-hackneyed story of the language's development and a comparison to C and C++. Then, there's a valuable chapter for programmers who haven't done database work before that explains in clear terms how relational databases work. After a glancing introduction to the JDBC application programming interface (API), the author walks the reader through the creation of all the critical elements of a JDBC application, including inserts, deletes, and updates. He covers the applet-specific implications of JDBC and explores three-tiered databases. The entire second half of JDBC Developer's Resource is given over to a full JDBC API reference. |
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JDBC: Practical Guide for Java Programmers
By: Gregory Speegle Paperback - 128 pages 1st edition (September 22, 2001) Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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Java 2 Programmer's Interactive Workbook
By: Kevin Chu, Eric Brower Paperback - 600 pages 1 edition (December 24, 1999) Prentice Hall Welcome to the Java 2 Programmer's Interactive Workbook. This book will help guide you as you learn the Java programming language, which is regarded as the future of computer programming. Never before has a computer language so successfully combined a powerful object-oriented language with all of the graphical tools needed to create a fully functional program that can run on any system and in any Web browser. With the advance of the Internet, Java has become the language of choice for developers who need to create and distribute their applications quickly. Java was developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s and has been gaining popularity every since. Prior to Java, the two main languages used by the computer industry were C, and C++. C is simple, powerful, and sometimes elegant, but it is also a procedural language. C++ is object-oriented, but also hugely complex and requires a great deal of overhead to maintain a program. Both languages are also machine-dependent, meaning that their programs only run on one type of computer (PC, Mac, Unix). The program must be recompiled, and sometimes rewritten, to work on a different computer. This can lead to long development times for projects. Likewise, neither C nor C++ have built-in graphical utilities. Both must use special libraries that allow the program to use the windowing features of the computer. These libraries can be vastly different on various computer platforms, requiring more rewriting of the programs. |
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Java Enterprise CD Bookshelf: Version 1.0
By: O'Reilly, Associates (Editor), David Flanagan, Jim Farley, William Crawford Paperback - 604 pages CD-ROM edition (September 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Computer professionals increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to ease information pain. Now The Java Enterprise CD Bookshelf gives you convenient online access to your favorite books from your CD-ROM drive. The Java Enterprise CD Bookshelf contains a powerhouse of books from O'Reilly: both electronic and print versions of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, plus electronic versions of Java in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition; Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell; Enterprise JavaBeans, 2nd Edition; Java Servlet Programming; Java Security; and Java Distributed Computing. Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, what you need to know online. Formatted in HTML, The Java Enterprise CD Bookshelf can be read using any Web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, a master index for the entire library is provided. |
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Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ
By: Jason Price Paperback - 416 pages 1 edition (September 2001) O'Reilly & Associates If you're a Java programmer working in an Oracle environment, you're probably familiar with JDBC as a means of accessing data within an Oracle database. SQLJ takes you further, allowing you to access a database using embedded SQL statements. Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ shows you how to get the most out of SQLJ. Layered on top of JDBC, SQLJ greatly simplifies database programming. Rather than make several calls to the JDBC API just to execute a simple SQL statement, SQLJ executes that statement simply by embedding it within the Java code. In this book, Jason Price explains SQLJ programming from a task-oriented point of view. You'll learn how to: Embed queries and other SQL statements within Java programs. Deploy SQLJ code not only on client machines, but also to JServer--Oracle's Java engine built into the database. Use advanced techniques for working with collections, streams, large objects, and database objects, all without leaving the comfort of the SQLJ environment. Tune SQLJ programs for maximum performance. Throughout this book, the exposition of SQLJ and SQLJ programming techniques reflect the author's many years of professional experience as a programmer and consultant. Examples are first-rate, enabling you to learn SQLJ in no time. If you're writing Java code to access an Oracle database, you can't afford not to know about SQLJ. |
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Learn to Program Using Python: A Tutorial for Hobbyists, Self-Starters, and Those Who Want to Learn the Art of Programming
By: Alan Gauld Paperback - 288 pages 1st edition (January 15, 2001) Addison-Wesley Pub Co A beginner's guide to programming terminology, fundamental concepts, and techniques for writing code. The author focuses on the four basic constructs of programming--sequences, loops, branches, and modules--then walks step-by-step through the development of a word counter and a guessing game. The CD-ROM contains Python version 1.5.2 and a Python tutorial. Topics covered include data types and variables, debugging, and namespaces. Also includes sample applications that illustrate ideas and techn iques in action. The CD-ROM contains an online Python tutorial. |
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Learning Python (Help for Programmers)
By: Mark Lutz, David Ascher, Frank Willison (Editor) Paperback - 366 pages (April 9, 1999) O'Reilly & Associates The authors of Learning Python show you enough essentials of the Python scripting language to enable you to begin solving problems right away, then reveal more powerful aspects of the language one at a time. This approach is sure to appeal to programmers and system administrators who have urgent problems and a preference for learning by semi-guided experimentation. First off, Learning Python shows the relationships among Python scripts and their interpreter (in a mostly platform-neutral way). Then, the authors address the mechanics of the language itself, providing illustrations of how Python conceives of numbers, strings, and other objects as well as the operators you use to work with them. Dictionaries, lists, tuples, and other data structures specific to Python receive plenty of attention including complete examples. |
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Mastering Data Mining: The Art and Science of Customer Relationship Management
By: Michael J. A. Berry, Gordon Linoff Paperback - 512 pages 1 edition (December 14, 1999) John Wiley & Sons In their critically acclaimed book, Data Mining Techniques, Michael Berry and Gordon Linoff showed readers how to use data mining techniques to improve marketing and sales. In their new, book they take readers to the next level with a series of step-by-step lessons, built around 20 real-world cases illustrating how they used their techniques to solve problems. |
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OCP: Oracle8i DBA Architecture & Administration and Backup & Recovery Study Guide
By: Doug Stuns, Biju Thomas, Greg Hobbs Hardcover - 845 pages 1st edition (November 2000) Sybex The DBA (database administrator) track is the most popular, with more than 8,000 DBAs being certified each year. Sybex's OCP DBA Study Guides provide complete coverage of exam objectives for the five exams in the DBA track: SQL and PL/SQL, Database Administration, Backup & Recovery, Performance Tuning, and Network Administration. The books are fully up-to-date for Oracle8i and include all the new features of Sybex's best-selling Study Guides. The companion CDs contain exclusive self-testing software. The DBO (database operator) exam is a new offering from Oracle, which prepares students for the full DBA track. It is fully supported by Oracle's partners: Sun, Novell, Compaq, and HP. Sybex's Study Guide provides complete coverage of the exam objectives and includes a companion CD with exclusive self-testing software. |
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OCP: Oracle8i DBA Certification Kit
By: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas, Joe Johnson, Matthew Weishan, Doug Stuns Hardcover Book & CD edition (December 18, 2000) Sybex Boxed set certification kit for the Oracle 8i DBA exams, numbers 1Z0-001, 1Z0-023, 1Z0-024, 1Z0-025, and 1Z0-026. Includes three study guide texts, each with its own CD-ROM. Each includes custom testing engines with hundreds of sample questions, electronic flashcards for PC and Palm devices, and other helpful features. |
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OCP: Oracle8i DBA Performance Tuning and Network Administration Study Guide
By: Joseph C. Johnson, Matthew Weishan, Joe Johnson Hardcover - 848 pages (September 1, 2000) Sybex
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OCP: Oracle8i DBA Virtual Test Center
By: Sybex (Editor) CD-ROM 1ST edition (May 18, 2001) Sybex Test your knowledge with exclusive software to prepare you for all five OCP Oracle8i DBA exams. --Contains 1000 questions in a tough adaptive format with a unique benchmarking feature to help you identify weak areas. --Delivers four sample exams for each test and is a great companion to the Sybex OCP: Oracle8i Study Guides. |
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Ocp: Oracle8I DBA Sql and PL/SQL Study Guide: Exam 1Z0-001
By: Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas Hardcover - 544 pages (September 2000) Sybex
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Oracle & Open Source
By: Andy Duncan, Sean Hull Paperback - 400 pages (April 15, 2001) O'Reilly & Associates Oracle & Open Source is the first book to tie together the commercial world of Oracle and the free-wheeling world of open source software. As this book reveals, these two worlds are not as far apart as they may seem. Today, there are many excellent and freely available software tools that Oracle developers and database administrators can use, at no cost, to improve their own coding productivity and their system's performance. Moreover, many of the finest Oracle developers are now making their source code freely available so their peers can build upon this code base. Oracle Corporation is even porting its RDBMS to Linux and starting to incorporate a growing number of open source tools in the company's own software. Oracle & Open Source describes close to 100 open source tools you can use for Oracle development and database administration, from large and widely known open source systems (like Linux, Perl, Apache, TCL/Tk and Python) to more Oracle-specific tools (such as OracleTool). You'll learn how to obtain the software and how to adapt it to best advantage. The book abounds with code examples, download and installation instructions, and helpful usage hints. Not only does it tell you how to find and use existing open source code; Oracle & Open Source gives you the details and the motivation to build your own open source contributions and release them to the Oracle community. You'll lear n all about tools like the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and Perl-DBI (Database Interface), which provide the glue allowing new open source tools to link into commercial Oracle software. With Oracle & Open Source as a guide, you'll discover an enormous number of highly effective open source tools, while getting involved with the thriving community of open source development. |
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Oracle 24x7 Tips & Techniques
By: Venkat S. Devraj Paperback - 1008 pages (November 1999) Computing McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Time-tested information--Strategies come straight from an Oracle DBA who's worked in the trenches for the Quatar Government keeping systems online 24x7. 8i Coverage--Version 8i's web functionality makes working in 24x7 mode available to a wider spectrum of corporations. Specific discussions--Covers areas of database installation, configuration, and management of security, performance, and recoverability. Diagnostic and database monitoring scripts--Scripts can be deployed immediately to help DBAs achieve high-availability databases. |
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Oracle 8I Administration and Management
By: Michael R. Ault Paperback - 1024 pages Bk & CD-ROM edition (October 20, 1999) John Wiley & Sons Oracle database administrators always have plenty on their plate. Oracle8i Administration and Management comes to the rescue with lots of guidance in creating and maintaining Oracle databases and keeping them running at top performance. This is the latest revision of the DBA guide that has previously covered Oracle7 and, more recently, Oracle8. This update adds full coverage of Oracle 8i and includes an integrated discussion of the new version's object-oriented additions to the popular SQL database product. Author Michael R. Ault meticulously goes through the topics administrators care about most, presenting a detailed discussion of the underlying architectural details. By organizing chapters according to administrative functions, such as "Tuning Oracle Applications" and "Database Internals Tuning," Ault has created a text that is quite handy for on-the-spot reference. A number of useful appendices on the companion CD-ROM offer plenty of useful management tidbits, as well as all of t he code scripts used in the book and demonstration versions of management utilities. |
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Oracle 8i Data Warehousing
By: Lilian Hobbs, Susan Hillson Paperback - 400 pages (November 1999) Digital Press Two members of the Oracle8i summary management development team explain how to design, implement, and administer data warehouses and data marts using the new Oracle8i database program. Dimension and fact tables, indexes, partitions, materialized views, and the Oracle discoverer, express, time series and enterprise manager are all discussed. |
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Oracle 8i and Java: From Client Server to E-Commerce
By: Elio Bonazzi, Glenn Stokol Paperback - 1232 pages CD-ROM edition (June 22, 2001) Prentice Hall This book/CD-ROM shows how to use programming tools to bring databases to the Internet using the new integration between Java and Oracle. Coverage includes Oracle object-relational databases and the SQL language, Oracle PL/SQL and Java stored procedures, middleware, and Java components in the database. Material is written from a software developer's perspective, but will be of interest to application designers and system architects as well. Assumes background in Java and SQL. The CD-ROM contains sample code from the book for Linux/UNIX, Windows, and MacOS. Bonazzi develops performance monitoring tools for Java. Stokol is a Java trainer in the private sector. Oracle 8i and Java: From Client Server to E-Commerce |
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Oracle 9iAS Portal Bible
By: Rick Greenwald, James Milbery 984 pages CDRom edition (June 2001) Hungry Minds, Inc A quick glance at this book reveals an elaborate mix of information-presentation techniques. Procedures, complete with numbered steps, intermingle with bulleted lists that document options, and tables that explain alternative parameters that may be used in code to achieve different effects. The result is a guide that's handy for getting your initial familiarity with Portal (you can just follow the steps without deviation) as well as for reference when you're more expert (you can use the index to locate the tables and facts you need to see in order to solve problems). Read this one if you need to build Portal applications and don't have time for training. |
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Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Programming with CD-ROM
By: Scott Urman Paperback - 777 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing This latest edition of Scott Urman's definitive guide to PL/SQL programming under Oracle databases, Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming, takes into account the new features of the language under Oracle 8i. Urman cut out some of the introductory PL/SQL material that appears in his earlier Oracle works, letting him focus more fully on higher-level aspects of the language and advanced techniques for putting them to use. Still, quite a bit of introductory material - including information on PL/SQL development environments - appears here, so don't be afraid to dive into Oracle 8i PL/SQL with this book if you can afford to buy only one guide. |
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Oracle Applications Performance Tuning Handbook
By: Andy Tremayne Paperback - 908 pages CD-ROM edition (September 19, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Brand new, real-world case studies illustrating what needs tuning and why, and how to most effectively do it. Instructional troubleshooting flowcharts at the end of each chapter that relate back to the information in the chapter. Maximize the Performance of Your Oracle Applications System Troubleshoot and tune Oracle Applications Smart Client and Internet computing environments. Officially authorized by Oracle Corporation, Oracle Applications Performance Tuning Handbook provides a systematic approach to resolving complex system-wide performance issues. Learn how to preempt serious problems as well as increase system capacity, improve scalability, and extend the life of existing system components. |
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Oracle Built-In Packages
By: Steven Feuerstein, Charles Dye, John Beresniewicz Paperback - 956 pages (May 1998) O'Reilly & Associates Oracle is the most popular database management system in use today, and PL/SQL plays a pivotal role in current and projected Oracle products and applications. PL/SQL is a programming language providing procedural extensions to the SQL relational database language and to an ever-growing number of Oracle development tools. Originally a rather limited tool, PL/SQL became with Oracle7 a mature and effective language for developers. Now, with the introduction of Oracle8, PL/SQL has taken the next step towards becoming a fully realized programming language providing sophisticated object-oriented capabilities. Steven Feuerstein's Oracle PL/SQL Programming is a comprehensive guide to building applications with PL/SQL. That book has become the bible for PL/SQL developers who have raved about its completeness, readability, and practicality. Built-in packages are collections of PL/SQL objects built by Oracle Corporation and stored directly in the Oracle database. The functionality of these packages is available from any programming environment that can call PL/SQL stored procedures, including Visual Basic, Oracle Developer/2000, Oracle Application Server (for Web-based development), and, of course, the Oracle database itself. Built-in packages extend the capabilities and power of PL/SQL in many significant ways. |
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Oracle Certified Professional Building Internet Applications I & II Exam Guide
By: Christopher Allen Hardcover - 560 pages (October 17, 2001) McGraw Hill (Oracle Press) Prepare to pass the OCP Building Internet Applications I ; II exams--two of four required exams for OCP Application Developer certifications--using this Oracle Press study guide. You'll get complete coverage of all exam topics followed by practice questions and chapter summaries. The CD-ROM contains hundreds of practice exam questions in an adaptive format. |
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Oracle Certified Professional Financial Apps Consultant Exam Guide
By: Barbara Ann Pascavage Hardcover - 1072 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Make a smart career move and begin enjoying all the rewards of OCP Financial Applications Consultant certification! This Oracle-endorsed study guide offers a complete preparation system geared to help you pass your exams with flying colors! The design of Oracle Press's OCP series is unprecedented in its level of focus. It provides readers with thorough explanatory text and plenty of examples. Following the main content will be: short chapter review; two-minute drill; 10-15 multiple choice questions modeled after the OCP exam questions and answers to chapter questions along with explanations. CD-ROM includes electronic, fully searchable version of the Exam Guide hyperlinked to over 300 practice exam questions. |
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Oracle DBA Checklists Pocket Reference
By: Revealnet Staff (Editor) Paperback - 80 pages (April 15, 2001) O'Reilly & Associates Oracle database administration is a complex and stressful job. Pocket guide and quick reference to Oracle DBA, containing easy-to-use checklists for common database administration tasks. Includes coverage of database management, installation and configuration, and network management. Also includes step-by-step quick reference material. In a series of easy-to-use checklists, this concise pocket reference summarizes the enormous number of tasks you must perform as an Oracle DBA. Each section takes a step-by-step "cookbook" approach to presenting DBA quick-reference material. This book's quick-reference, step-by-step approach takes the stress out of DBA problem solving by making it easy to find the information you need - and find it fast. |
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Oracle DBA Interactive Workbook
By: Melanie Caffrey, Douglas Scherer Paperback - 457 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) Prentice Hall The Oracle DBA Interactive Workbook presents an introduction to Oracle database administration in a unique and highly effective format. It is organized more like a teaching aid than a reference manual in that to learn basic administration techniques, you are challenged to work through a set of guided tasks rather than to read through descriptions. There is a list of additional reading material in Appendix B that you can reference if you wish to delve deeper into any of the topics covered in this book. This book is intended for beginners in the world of Oracle database administration. It will take you through a set of tasks, starting with creating a database to using some of the Oracle database tuning, and backup and recovery utilities. Those experienced with Oracle databases will recognize that a workbook covering the topic of database administration will be an extremely useful introduction for the beginner, but it cannot be used as a deep study of the Oracle database environment. Aft er working through this book, you will have been launched into the exciting and interesting (sometimes nerve-racking) world of database administration, but it will take years of experience to become a senior database administrator. This book is intended for anyone who needs a quick and detailed introduction to Oracle database administration tasks. It is not the intention of this book to provide an in-depth study of the Oracle database server. The foundation for this book was developed to supplement the Introduction to Oracle Database Administration class in the Database Track at Columbia University's Computer Technology and Applications (CTA) program in New York City. The book's sidebars and answers often reflect questions that students have asked in class. |
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Oracle DBA Tips and Techniques
By: Sumit Sarin Paperback - 737 pages 1st edition (April 15, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill Oracle DBA Tips & Techniques is the perfect complement to Oracle Press DBA Handbooks and soon-to-be published Starter Kit. The book is organized and structured to provide time-saving, undocumented methods for the DBAs comprehensive job. The Oracle Tips & Techniques Series is a response to the many requests for this type of material from the readers of Oracle Press. Important features include: "Tips Covered" and "Tips Reviewed" section at the beginning and end of each chapter; easy-refere nce bleed tabs. |
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Oracle DBA on Unix and Linux
By: Michael Wessler Paperback - 600 pages 1st edition (October 29, 2001) Sams Oracle DBA on Unix and Linux provides all the information needed to install, support, tune, and upgrade Oracle databases on the UNIX and Linux platforms. Maintain a robust, mission-critical Oracle8i database. This book provides administrative solutions for the day-to-day DBA. You'll learn how to install the database for maximum efficiency, upgrades, patches, migrations, tune, and maintain its security. The book also explains in detail how to build and support a fully functioning Oracle database. This authoritative text contains up-to-date information available on Oracle's latest release and shows you how to: configure database architecture; install and set up with UNIX requirements; create the actual database with scripts; GUI management products; use Backup and Recovery; tune, monitor, and troubleshoot servers; Web DB and the Oracle Portal, 8i, iFS, Java, and 9I coverage; and iAS - Internet Application Server. |
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Oracle Database Administration for UNIX Systems (Bk/CD-ROM)
By: Lynnwood Brown Paperback - 224 pages 1 edition (June 23, 1997) Prentice Hall A book/CD-ROM for new and experienced database administrators and managers, reviewing Oracle database architecture and offering step-by- step instructions for planning, sizing, and installing Oracle systems, focusing UNIX-specific configuration and tuning issues. Other topics include security, backup and recovery, and application development. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a multimedia installation and configuration tutorial, readable with any Web browser. Oracle is the leading enterprise database management system, and more Oracle databases are deployed on UNIX systems than any other platform. There is no introduction to database administration that focuses exclusively on the UNIX platform--this book fills that critical void. The CD-ROM includes a multimedia tutorial on installing and configuring the Oracle server. |
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Oracle Database Administration: The Complete Video Course
By: Melanie Caffrey, Douglas Scherer Paperback Video and Book edition (December 2000) Prentice Hall This video course contains three-and-a-half hours of QuickTime video instruction plus the Oracle Interactive Workbook e-Book. Caffrey and Scherer (database development and management, Columbia U. School of Continuing Education) present 17 video lectures that cover all key aspects of day-to-day Oracle database administration including creating new datasets; managing physical database layouts; administering users, privileges, and resource groups; tuning Oracle and SQL code for maximum performance; security, auditing, and data integrity; logical and practical backup and recovery; auditing; rollback segments; and other topics. |
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Oracle Dba Reference Library
By: Guy Harrison (Contributor), Lynnwood Brown (Contributor), Ahmed Alomari Paperback Bk & CD-ROM edition (September 1997) Prentice Hall This kit includes three books: Oracle SQL highperformance tuning, Oracle database administration on UNIX systems, and Oracle and UNIX performance tuning. Three CD ROMs included. The complete professional's resource for building, managing, and optimizing Oracle databases! Oracle DBA Reference Library is an unparalleled practical resource for DBAs, database programmers, IT managers, and anyone who needs to make the most of Oracle database technology. It's three comprehensive, up-to-date books by world-class Oracle professionals, plus three CD-ROMs packed with tools and information, all for one great price! |
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Oracle Designer Generation
By: Kenneth Atkins, Paul Dirksen, Zikri Askin Ince, Ken Atkins Paperback - 1161 pages (May 3, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press)
Provides Oracle Designer professionals with the means to consistently create quality, highly-generated application systems. Authors are experts who frequently give well-attended presentations on this hot topic. Focuses on designing and building systems which optimize the usage of the Forms, Reports, WebServer, and server side generators. This authoritative guide covers releases 2 and 6, providing detailed coverage of the Oracle Designer Forms, Reports, MS Help and Server Side PL/SQL generators. |
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Oracle Designer Handbook
By: Peter Koletzke, Dr. Paul Dorsey Paperback - 1075 pages 2nd edition (November 1998) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Provides a solid understanding of how to plan and build a project that fully realizes the time-saving potential of Designer/2000. Explores the goals, processes, and deliverables for each step in the CASE process. Contains numerous unique tips and techniques; offers tactical "how-to" discussions based on the authors' firsthand experience. This authoritative guide provides a solid understanding of how to design and build a project that fully realizes the time-saving potential of Oracle Designer/2000. It takes the developer through each step of Oracle's CASE approach, revealing methodical steps and phases of producing software and practical ways that the Designer/2000 tool can support them. |
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Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing An Enterprise Standards Document
By: Mark A. Kramm, Kent Graziano, Paul Dirksen Paperback - 300 pages 1 edition (October 7, 1999) Prentice Hall Outlines standards for system development and sets naming conventions for logical and physical objects as well as for data and process elements, and documents recommended conventions for use with the primary diagramming tools found in Oracle Designer. Conventions are presented for the business process modeler, and the function hierarchy, entity relationship and server model diagrammers. The CD-ROM contains a standards document template in Word. |
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Oracle Developer 2000 Handbook
By: Michael W. Stowe Paperback - 330 pages 2nd edition (January 1999) Prentice Hall A book/disk package presenting principles of data modeling, GUI design, and coding with SQL and PL/SQL within the context of Oracle's tools, and covering forms, reports, graphics, and tools such as Terminal and Procedure Builder. Appendices list forms object properties, and built-ins for each tool and those common to all Developer/2000 tools. The accompanying disk contains examples from the book, and a shareware version of Barclock. For applications developers with a working knowledge of SQL and relational databases. A tutorial and reference to make up for the lack of hard-copy documentation accompanying the software package itself. Provides step- by-step instructions for every component, including forms, reports, graphics, data modeling, and design tools. Also offers information on Oracle's Web architecture, tuning applications for optimal performance, building graphical user interfaces, and avoiding pitfalls and traps. The CD-ROM contains Developer/2000 sample code plus a full traini ng module. |
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Oracle Developer Advanced Forms and Reports
By: Peter Koletzke, Paul Dorsey Paperback - 835 pages (November 5, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) In a recent Computerworld survey Oracle Developer was second only to Visual Basic in "most-wanted" development tools skills for 1999. Developer's Forms supports a variety of object-oriented features that greatly enhance the productivity of the product, but few developers know how to use these features. This book shows them how. Version 6.0 has been thoroughly debugged and is drawing critical-quality applications in under an hour. CD-ROM includes ready-to-use template and report applications. Develop powerful web-based and client/server applications in record time. Maximize the power of Oracle Developer to create sophisticated, flexible, and user-friendly database applications. This unique guide contains an invaluable resource--a discussion of actual Forms and Reports standards used by the authors to create production systems. Included are standards for the use of SQL and PL/SQL in the development tools, naming conventions, and GUI design. |
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Oracle Developer Forms Techniques
By: Bulusu Lakshman Paperback - 250 pages 1 edition (February 2000) Sams Features real-world applications, undocumented tips, projects, and techniques for developing Oracle Forms. Coverage includes advanced GUI development, advanced forms programming, object-oriented methods, and working with trees. Prerequisites are a working knowledge of Oracle RDBMS and SQL, the PL/SQL language, and Oracle Forms. For developers, IS managers, technical managers, and system analysts. The author is an experienced Oracle Forms applications developer. Designed to help you master advanced GUI development, managing multiform applications, error handling, object orientation, Forms intelligence, trees, navigation and validation, and object handling. Provides instruction on how to leverage the power of Forms by combining GUI with programming techniques that create powerful front ends. |
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Oracle Developer Starter Kit
By: Robert J. Muller Paperback - 792 pages Bk & CD-ROM edition (September 27, 1999) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Oracle Developer is one of the most powerful database application tools available today, with excellent Internet and middle-tier capabilities. Oracle Developer Starter Kit provides a solid working introduction to using this tool effectively. Stressing a hands-on tutorial of the major features of this product, plus plenty of tips for successful programming, this book is all you need to be productive. The hands-on focus is a real strength of this text, which does a good job of explaining how Oracle Developer works, and offers plenty of advice about following Oracle-recommended conventions. (Readers are reminded that effective Developer programming means cooperating with the excellent built-in functionality of the product. By following a few principles in Developer, you can write database applications that will scale to hundreds or thousands of users effortlessly--this includes the ability to deploy to the Internet.) Early chapters introduce the basics of using Oracle Forms, the form-design tool, to create screens for data entry and reports (by using Oracle Reports), along with graphics and charts. |
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Oracle Discoverer Handbook
By: Michael Armstrong-Smith, Darlene Armstrong-Smith Paperback - 569 pages (September 26, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Learn to write effective ad hoc queries and perform data analysis easily with Discoverer--Oracle's award-winning, powerful query and analysis tool. This is the only Oracle-authorized guide to this product, from the official Oracle Press. Analyze your organization's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data in order to make informed business decisions using Oracle Discoverer--the award-winning, powerful, ad hoc query and analysis tool. Oracle Discoverer Handbook explains in full detail how end-users can gain immediate access to information from relational data warehouses, data marts, or online transaction processing systems. |
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Oracle Distributed Systems
By: Charles Dye, Deorah Russell (Editor), Deborah Russell (Editor) Paperback - 530 pages Bk & Disk edition (April 1999) O'Reilly & Associates Most organizations that use the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) these days need to use multiple databases. There are many reasons to use more than a single database in a distributed database system: Different databases may be associated with particular business functions, such as manufacturing or human resources. Databases may be aligned with geographical boundaries, such as a behemoth database at a headquarters site and smaller databases at regional offices. Two different databases may be required to access the same data in different ways, such as an order entry database whose transactions are aggregated and analyzed in a data warehouse. A busy Internet commerce site may create multiple copies of the same database to attain horizontal scalability. A copy of a production database may be created to serve as a development test bed. |
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Oracle E-Business Suite 11i: Implementing Core Financial Applications
By: Susan Foster Hardcover - 384 pages 1 edition (October 12, 2001) John Wiley & Sons Oracle's version 11i represents Oracle's first presentation of Oracle applications in Internet form, one in which the concept of specific forms loaded as clients or as dumb terminals is replaced by a commitment to industry standard Internet form that should be accessible by anyone anywhere. The book covers the setup and use of Oracle's E-Business Suite 11i including General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Multi-Org and System Administration. It provides a sample organization from their initial installation to the period end close process. Screen shots, business process flow diagrams, and data architecture provide a tutorial for the Oracle applications novice. |
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Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Administration
By: Shankaran Iyer Paperback - 704 pages 1st edition (December 4, 2001) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing From the official Oracle Press comes a comprehensive guide managing, customizing, and tuning this key component of the Oracle Applications Suite. You'll learn to install and update Oracle Financials, apply various patches, and much more using this essential resource. |
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Oracle Essentials: Oracle8 and Oracle8i
By: Rick Greenwald, Jonathan Stern, Robert Stackowiak Paperback - 355 pages (November 1999) O'Reilly & Associates The Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) 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. And as each new version of the database is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies. This book distills the enormous amount of information about what Oracle is, where it came from, and what the latest releases (Oracle8 and Oracle8i) do -- and packages it into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints for DBAs and developers. It explains what is new and important about Oracle's revolutionary releases, Oracle8 (the "object-relational database") and Oracle8i (the "Internet database"). It covers such topics as overall system products, architecture, and data structures; installation, management, security, backup and recovery, and tuning issues; and specific Oracle technologies such as data warehouses, online transaction processing (OLTP), and the system's interfaces to the Web. |
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Oracle Financials 101
By: Rebecca Enonchong Paperback - 544 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Financials Handbook discusses the various products contained in Oracle Financials, with an emphasis on its accounting packages. It provides detailed implementation instructions and expert advice not published elsewhere and offers a blueprint for planning an implementation. Readers will find find essential accounting knowledge within the context of the Oracle products, coverage of key features in each product, and the key issues in successfully installing them. They will also gain a practical plan for organizing, budgeting, staffing, and managing an Oracle Applications implementation and will learn about the subtle ways in which package implementation differs from custom software development. This book also addresses when to modify the package to meet business requirements-and when to modify business practices to suit the package. |
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Oracle Financials Handbook
By: David James, Graham H. Seibert, Joseph Costantino Paperback - 723 pages (April 16, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle Financials Handbook discusses the various products contained in Oracle Financials, with an emphasis on its accounting packages. It provides detailed implementation instructions and expert advice not published elsewhere and offers a blueprint for planning an implementation. Readers will find find essential accounting knowledge within the context of the Oracle products, coverage of key features in each product, and the key issues in successfully installing them. They will also gain a practical plan for organizing, budgeting, staffing, and managing an Oracle Applications implementation and will learn about the subtle ways in which package implementation differs from custom software development. This book also addresses when to modify the package to meet business requirements-and when to modify business practices to suit the package. |
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Oracle Forms Developer's Handbook
By: Albert Lulushi Paperback - 975 pages 1 edition (December 15, 2000) Prentice Hall A step-by-step guide to the forms of Oracle 6i, from debugging and coding to project management and object-oriented analysis and design. Shows how to build GUIs that deliver breakthrough ease of use, create integrated Developer/2000 applications, and access the full power of Windows and other support programs. Oracle Forms is the most important tool used to create client/server and World Wide Web applications that run against Oracle databases. Oracle Forms Developer's Handbook is a complete reference guide for those who use Forms to build sophisticated database systems rapidly and productively. The book covers in detail all the aspects, features, and functionality of Oracle Forms. |
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Oracle Forms Developer: The Complete Training Course
By: Benjamin Rosenzweig, Baman Motivala, Ben Rosenzweig CD-ROM 1st edition (December 2000) Prentice Hall This video course contains four-and-a-half hours of QuickTime video instruction as well as the Oracle Forms Interactive Workbook e-Book that integrates the tutorials with hands-on practical exercises, self-review questions, and real-world labs. The 13 video lectures cover topics including Oracle Forms development environment, form builder, reusable objects and code, triggers and built-ins, LOVs and alerts, canvases and windows, multiple form applications, and integration with Oracle reports. Requires a basic understanding of the Oracle 7/8/8i database, SQL, PL/SQL, and database design. Prepared by Rosenzweig (consultant for Oracle Corporation) and Motivala (former Oracle Tools employee and Forms instructor. |
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Oracle Forms Interactive Workbook
By: Baman Motivala Paperback - 467 pages 1st edition (April 15, 2000) Prentice Hall The Oracle Forms Interactive Workbook presents Oracle Forms in a unique and highly effective format. It challenges you to learn Oracle Forms by using it rather than by simply reading about it. Just as a grammar workbook would teach you about nouns and verbs by first showing you examples and then asking you to write sentences, the Oracle Forms workbook teaches you about Forms, triggers, and items by first showing you examples and then asking you to create these objects yourself. This book is intended for anyone who needs a quick but detailed introduction to building applications with Oracle Forms. The ideal readers are those with some experience with relational databases, specifically Oracle, but little or no experience with Oracle Forms or application development. |
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Oracle High-Performance SQL Tuning
By: Don Burleson, Donald K. Burleson Paperback - 656 pages (July 27, 2001) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing From the official Oracle Press comes a comprehensive guide to tuning SQL statements for optimal execution. This expert resource explains how to view the internal execution plan of any SQL statement and change it to improve the performance of the statement. You'll get details on Oracle's optimizer modes, SQL extensions, the STATSPACK utility, and a wealth of methods for tuning Oracle SQL statements. |
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Oracle High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK
By: Donald Keith Burleson, Don Burleson Paperback - 674 pages (April 20, 2001) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Handbook for Oracle STATSPACK users, to making informed performance and tuning decisions for a system, based on data gathered with the utility. Shows how to perform trend analyses, locate and tune SQL statements, tune the server environment, including the CPU and RAM, and detect and correct performance problems. |
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Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs
By: Donald K. Burleson (Editor) Paperback - 896 pages (July 30, 2001) Auerbach Publications If you are a typical Oracle professional, you don't have the luxury of time to keep up with new technology and read all the new manuals to understand each new feature of the latest release from Oracle. You need a comprehensive source of information and in-depth tips and techniques for using the new technology. You need Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs.Oracle has evolved from a simple relational database into one of the most complex e-commerce platforms ever devised. It's not enough for you to understand just the Oracle database. You must also understand the components of the Web server technology, XML, Oracle Security, Oracle and Java, and a host of other issues in order to do your job properly. This book is a compendium of the best and most useful articles form Oracle Internals, Auerbach Publications' newsletter for Oracle database administrators and other Oracle professionals. Edited by Oracle guru Don Burleson, it provides the type of in-depth, highly technical information not found in any other book, information only available from peers and consultants. The chapters focus on the truly tough stuff - proven techniques learned in the trenches. You could get this information from other sources, but you'd have to hunt and peck for it. Can you afford that kind of time? Oracle Internals: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for DBAs gives you knowledge and advice directly applicable to your work in one easy-to-use resource. |
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Oracle JDeveloper
By: Cary Jensen, Loy Anderson, Blake Stone Paperback - 688 pages (July 15, 1998) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) An exclusive from Oracle Press! The Oracle Tools Division is expanding its Java strategy, making this book timely and pertinent. Packed with current screen shots, this book guides database application developers in building cross-platform Java apps; web-delivered Java applets; and JavaBeans--no previous Java experience needed! Covers the new DataForm Wizard and SQLJ. A revision of, "JBuilder Essentials", this repackaged title focuses on teaching database application developers to develop sophisticated, cross-platform Java applications, Web-delivered Java applets, and JavaBeans--all with no prior Java experience necessary. |
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Oracle JDeveloper 3 Handbook
By: Paul Dorsey, Peter Koletzke 600 pages 1st edition (March 27, 2001) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) From the official Oracle Press comes a thorough guide to Oracle JDeveloper 3--the complete and integrated Java development and deployment environment. This book explains how to use JDeveloper in combination with an object-oriented approach to database design. In addition to an overview of the tool, the book covers the following JDeveloper components and how these can be successfully integrated into production applications: Applets, Servlets, CORBA, JavaBeans, and Enterprise JavaBeans |
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Oracle Net8 Configuration & Troubleshooting
By: Hugo Toledo, Jonathan Gennick Paperback - 450 pages 1st edition (December 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Net8 is the fundamental Oracle technology that allows Oracle services and clients to communicate with each other over a network. Net8 is most often used to connect client software to Oracle database servers. It may also be used to connect database servers to one another, allowing communication between distributed databases. This practical guide provides the information that readers, especially database administrators, need to know in order to install configure, tune, and troubleshoot Net8. |
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Oracle PL/SQL 101
By: Christopher Allen Paperback - 420 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing (Oracle Press) PL/SQL is Oracle's version of SQL, the industry standard for enterprise-level database interaction. Explains how to write powerful, flexible programs, and to automate a multitude of database tasks. The only official Oracle entry-level book on the topic, it provides a complete introductory course to readers on SQL and PL/SQL. An invaluable tool for database administrators, developers and financial analysts, it teaches novice-through-experienced readers how to manipulate records to easily access and analyze database information. Popularity of SQL, combined with rich response to Oracle Press' other SQL titles, make this respected resource a guaranteed best-seller. |
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Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook
By: Benjamin Rosenzweig, Elena Silvestrova, Benjamin Rosenweig Paperback - 447 pages 1 edition (March 25, 2000) Prentice Hall The Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook presents the Oracle PL/SQL programming language in a unique and highly effective format. It challenges you to learn Oracle PL/SQL by using it rather than by simply reading about it. Just as a grammar workbook would teach you about nouns and verbs by first showing you examples and then asking you to write sentences, the Oracle PL/SQL workbook teaches you about cursors, procedures, and triggers by first showing you examples, and then asking you to create these objects yourself. Is For This book is intended for anyone who needs a quick but detailed introduction to programming with Oracle's PL/SQL language. The ideal readers are those with some experience with relational databases, with some Oracle experience, specifically with SQL and SQL*Plus, but with little or no experience with PL/SQL, or with most other programming languages. |
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming
By: Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, Debby Russell (Editor) Paperback - 987 pages 2nd edition (January 15, 1997) O'Reilly & Associates New edition which adds chapters describing PL/SQL in terms of object features and tuning, and includes expanded discussions of debugging and tracing execution. Twenty-six chapters discuss topics including programming, language elements, built-in functions, modular code, and new PL/SQL8 features. The included disk contains the Oracle PL/SQL programming utilities guide which offers approximately 100 files of source code and documentation. Packed with examples and recommendations, it helped everyone using PL/SQL (from the Oracle Forms developer to the database administrator) make the most of this powerful language. |
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming Developer's Workbook
By: Steven Feuerstein, Andrew Odewahn (Contributor) Paperback - 569 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) O'Reilly & Associates This workbook is a companion to Steven Feuerstein's bestselling books, Oracle PL/SQL Programming (considered the bible for PL/SQL developers), Oracle Built-in Packages, and Advanced Oracle PL/SQL: Programming with Packages. The workbook provides a carefully constructed set of exercises that test PL/SQL developers' language skills and help them become better programmers. Exercises are provided at three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced; in this way, the book is suitable for complete beginners, yet continues to be useful as readers gain mastery of the PL/SQL language. |
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Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features
By: Steven Feuerstein Paperback - 248 pages (October 1999) O'Reilly & Associates Oracle8i, the long-awaited "Internet database" from Oracle Corporation, is finally in production, and it offers a wide array of powerful features, including Web and Java technologies inside the database. The Oracle Internet File System (iFS), a Java Virtual Machine in the database, JDeveloper (a Java integrated development environment), Java stored procedures, the WebDB and interMedia tools, and much more, are now available to Oracle developers. And these developers are starting to realize how much they have to learn. This book is a companion to Steven Feuerstein's bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming (the second edition of that book is current for Oracle8). The companion book provides a very helpful transition for PL/SQL developers who are new to Oracle8i. It describes the new PL/SQL features available in Oracle8i (e.g., autonomous transactions, the invoker rights model, native dynamic SQL, and bulk binds and collects). It also covers features that allow PL/SQL developers to interface with Java and to do Web-based development. In addition, it includes a host of performance improvements available in PL/SQL under Oracle8i. |
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Oracle PL/SQL: The Complete Video Course
By: Elena Silvestrova, Benjamin Rosenzweig CD-ROM 1st edition (December 2000) Prentice Hall This video course contains three-and-a-half hours of QuickTime video instruction together with the Oracle PL/SQL Interactive Workbook e-Book. Silvestrova, Rosenzweig and Scherer (database development and management, Columbia U. School of Continuing Education) present 16 video lectures that cover Oracle PL/SQL techniques and concepts including syntax, structured programming, and iterative control; scoping and anchored datatypes; exception handling; scoping, cursors, packaged code, and triggers; advanced topics such as stored code, package and parameter passing, and more. |
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Oracle Performance Tuning
By: Mark Gurry, Peter Corrigan Paperback - 964 pages 2nd edition (November 1996) O'Reilly & Associates Tuning is crucial for complex relational database management systems. This guide shows managers, programmers, and administrators the alternatives to throwing money at performance problems (for buying larger and more expensive computers or hiring expert consultants). A guide to improving the performance of the Oracle relational database system. Addresses initial equipment and configuration decisions; how to get the best performance out of programs focusing on SQL, PL/SQL, and locking strategies; using memory and disk space efficiently; and long-running job, client-server environment, or system specific tuning. Additionally contains six appendixes containing summary material of relevance. |
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Oracle Performance Tuning Tips and Techniques
By: Richard J. Niemiec, Joe Trezzo, Rich Niemiec, Bradley D. Brown Paperback - 894 pages (April 1, 1999) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Expert Technical Knowledge at the Turn of a Page. Tune and tailor your Oracle7 or Oracle8 system to perform at its peak using this one-of-a-kind reference, designed for every Oracle database administrator, programmer, and user. In Oracle Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques, you'll find hundreds of real-world examples and insider secrets compiled from TUSC's standing-room only conference presentations and Oracle User Groups worldwide. From finding and fixing bottlenecks to enhancing performance using PL/SQL, this authoritative guide reveals proven methods for getting the most from your Oracle system throughout its lifecycle. Discover the Top 10 Tuning Tips used by industry experts to improve performance Maximize tuning with the most important basic, advanced, and undocumented INIT.ORA parameters for Oracle7 and Oracle8 Use Explain Plan and Tkprof to uncover problem queries that, when corrected, result in peak performance Explore the new features in Oracle8 to gain peak performance by uncovering problem queries Refine your tuning skills by exploring the new features in Oracle8 Take advantage of key V Views and X Tables to enhance performance Developed through years of consulting expertise, Oracle Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques is packed with time-saving tuning gems designed to ensure top system performance. |
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Oracle SAP Administration
By: Donald K. Burleson Paperback - 216 pages 1 edition (November 1999) O'Reilly & Associates SAP is the leading vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in the world. (The name SAP is an acronym for the German "Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung", which roughly translates to "Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing".) Developed and marketed by SAP-AG, a Germany company that was founded in 1972 by IBM application developers, SAP has historically sold to the European market. During the 1990s, the company has increasingly dominated the U.S. market as well among large Fortune 500 companies. Nearly half the SAP user base is now in the U.S. Now that SAP-AG is beginning to penetrate the small to medium-size companies, client/server sales are accelerating. The SAP system performs a wide range of business functions, from manufacturing, sales, and distribution to accounting and human resources. By linking together these business functions, SAP helps the entire enterprise run more smoothly. The system can be used with virtually any hardware or operating system and with most database systems. Oracle is the dominant DBMS - about 80% of SAP systems use Oracle. Conversely, about 20% of large Oracle sites run SAP -- and the numbers are growing. Although overall SAP numbers are tightly guarded, it appears that there are about 20,000 SAP sites, in 90 countries. SAP-AG's 1998 sales were approximately 8.47 billion. |
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Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives
By: Kevin Loney, Rachel Carmichael Paperback - 585 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (September 25, 1998) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing In Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Annotated Archives, authors Loney and Carmichael have assembled a topical collection of SQL & PL/SQL scripts for Oracle7 and Oracle8. Although this book is not by any means a tutorial for the database's programming language, even skillful database administrators can learn much from the illustrated techniques. The book begins with a chapter of Oracle8-specific scripts that include warning indicators for password expirations, scripts for determining value distributions across table and index partitions, and others. The rest of the chapters are devoted to particular topics. The first section addresses performance management and includes several scripts for collecting statistics and managing the System Global Area. These performance-related scripts are extremely valuable for any developer. Next comes a series of scripts related to monitoring transactions, diagnostic utilities to analyze data definition, and similar scripts for managing objects and space. Then it's on to diagnostic and utility scripts for managing users and some general database scripts. The book wraps up with a lengthy appendix that serves as an excellent reference to the PL/SQL language. Each chapter begins with summary of its scripts, and they are also included on the CD-ROM. Explanatory text is clearly identified as annotations, but the majority of the book consists of highly technical reading. While this book does not make for a very entertaining read, it provides Oracle administrators with powerful tools they can turn to in a pinch. |
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Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning
By: Guy Harrison Paperback - 656 pages 2nd edition (December 29, 2000) Prentice Hall A guide for Oracle developers and database administrators, covering every aspect of Oracle 8/8i SQL and PL/SQL tuning, with specific recommendations, detailed case studies, and real benchmarks. Coverage includes designing applications to maximize efficiency, building indexes, identifying and resolving Oracle Server bottlenecks, fixing poorly performed SQL code, and leveraging Oracle's parallel query facility. |
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Oracle SQL Interactive Workbook
By: Alex Morrison, Alice Rischert Paperback - 516 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Prentice Hall Gives background in Oracle's implementation of the SQL language. Each chapter is divided into labs, with objectives, examples, and exercises on specific tasks and questions that are designed to help readers discover important aspects of the SQL language. Exercises build knowledge step by step by introducing relational database concepts, the SQL*Plus environment, and the SQL language. Labs also include explained answers, multiple-choice review questions, and critical thinking questions. Morrison works in Internet development. Rischert is co-chair of Columbia University's Database Application Development and Design track at the Computer Technology and Application Program. |
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Oracle SQL Loader: The Definitive Guide
By: Jonathan Gennick, Sanjay Mishra Paperback - 251 pages 1st edition (April 15, 2001) O'Reilly & Associates SQL*Loader is a ubiquitous tool in the Oracle world. It has been shipped with Oracle since at least Version 6 and continues to be supported and enhanced with each new version of Oracle, including Oracle8 and Oracle8i. The job of SQL*Loader is to load data from flat files into an Oracle database. It's optimized for loading large volumes of data, and is flexible enough to handle virtually any input format. Almost every Oracle user has to use SQL*Loader at one time or another, and DBAs are frequently called upon to load data for the users in their organization. Despite SQL*Loader's wide availability and usage, few DBAs and developers know how to get the most out of it. Oracle SQL*Loader: The Definitive Guide has everything you need to know to put SQL*Loader to its best use: an introduction to SQL*Loader, a reference to all of its syntax options, and most importantly, step-by-step instructions for all the SQL*Loader tasks you'd want to perform - and maybe some you didn't realize you COULD perform. |
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Oracle SQL Plus Pocket Reference
By: Jonathan Gennick Paperback - 90 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) O'Reilly & Associates This pocket reference provides quick reference information that will help you use SQL*Plus, Oracle's interactive query tool. It summarizes all of the SQL*Plus syntax, including the syntax for new Oracle8i release 8.1.6 features. This book boils down the most vital information from Gennick's best-selling book, Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide, into an accessible summary. It concisely describes interacting with SQL*Plus, selecting data, formatting reports with SQL*Plus, and tuning SQL queries. It also contains quick references to the SQL*Plus commands and format elements. |
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Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
By: Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Gemrick, Deborah Russell Paperback - 502 pages (March 1999) O'Reilly & Associates This book is the definitive guide to SQL*Plus. If you want to take best advantage of the power and flexibility of this popular Oracle tool, you need this book. SQL*Plus is an interactive query tool that is ubiquitous in the Oracle world. It is present in every Oracle installation and is available to almost every Oracle developer and database administrator. SQL*Plus has been shipped with Oracle since at least version 6. It continues to be supported and enhanced with each new version of Oracle, including Oracle8 and Oracle8i. It is still the only widely available tool for writing SQL scripts. Despite this wide availability and usage, few developers and DBAs know how powerful SQL*Plus really is. |
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Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference
By: David C. Kreines, Ken Jacobs Paperback - 382 pages 1 Ed edition (October 2000) O'Reilly & Associates SQL (Structured Query Language) is the heart of a relational database management system. It's the language used to query the database, to create new tables in the database, to update and delete database fields, and to set privileges in the database. Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference is for everyone who needs to access an Oracle database using SQL--developers, DBAs, designers, and managers. SQL is based on research dating back to the late 1960s, but its first commercial release was in the RDBMS announced by the fledgling Oracle Corporation in 1979. Since that time, every other database vendor has adopted SQL, and ANSI and the ISO have made it a standard. Although vendors diverge in their extensions to SQL, the core language is standard across vendor boundaries. |
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Oracle Scripts
By: Brian Lomasky, David C. Kreines Paperback - 204 pages (May 1998) O'Reilly & Associates This book provides a powerful set of tools for Oracle database administrators and developers. During their many years of administering, tuning, and troubleshooting Oracle databases, the authors have developed hundreds of useful scripts. Now you can instantly take advantage of their experience by putting these scripts to work at your own site. DBAs and developers are constantly reinventing the wheel. Most Oracle sites have similar requirements, problems, and crises, and at most of these sites DBA s and developers find themselves reinventing the wheel by writing the same kinds of scripts -- and too often they're writing them under pressure, in hit-or-miss and error-prone fashion. The scripts in this book are tried-and-true. They've been thoroughly tested in many different environments. You can use them right now to simplify the tasks you perform each day -- monitoring databases for reliability, protecting your database against data loss, improving performance, increasing security, and building reports that provide insight into the inner workings of Oracle databases. You can also turn to these scripts in emergencies to diagnose system problems and repair databases when the pressure is on. |
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Oracle Security
By: William Heney, Marlene L. Theriault, Debby Russell Paperback - 425 pages 1 Ed edition (December 1, 1998) O'Reilly & Associates This book covers the field of Oracle security from simple to complex. It describes basic RDBMS security features (e.g., passwords, profiles, roles, privileges, synonyms) and includes many practical strategies for securing an Oracle system, developing auditing and backup plans, and using the Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Security Server. Also touches on advanced security features, such as encryption, Trusted Oracle, and Internet and Web protection. This unique book extensively discusses basic RDBMS security features, such as system file and password protection, database table and field access control, and the use of audit trails and backup and recovery strategies. It also offers many practical strategies for securing an Oracle system and touches on advanced security features. |
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Oracle Security Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
By: Marlene L. Theriault, Aaron Newman Paperback - 624 pages (August 14, 2001) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Develop and Execute a Fail-Safe Security Plan for Your Oracle System. Opening mission-critical systems to partners and customers over the Internet poses new challenges to traditional measures of enterprise security. Oracle Security Handbook presents tested techniques and proven strategies for securing an Oracle environment -- from the operating system to the database to the network. You'll get step-by-step details on developing a rock-solid security plan and concrete examples of how to implement security using Oracle's built-in tools. The book also explains how to hacker-proof, audit, and troubleshoot your entire system. Officially endorsed by Oracle Corporation, this expert resource even delves into the details of Oracles own security implementations. |
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Oracle Sql High-Performance Tuning
By: Guy Harrison Paperback - 491 pages 1st edition (January 15, 1997) Prentice Hall A guide to using Oracle's parallel query facility for large volume queries focusing on SQL and PL/SQL. Harrison, an Oracle developer and consultant, overviews SQL processing and introduces guidelines to improve applications, including execution plans, work with joins, nulls and ranges search, index building, hierarchical queries, table scans, GROUP BY, updates, and distributed SQL. The accompanying CD- ROM features a set of tools for detecting and correcting SQL bottlenecks. |
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Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Introduction
By: Andrew Odewahn Paperback - 256 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1999) O'Reilly & Associates This compact guide provides the jump-start Oracle developers need to make the transition from traditional programming to the development of useful Web applications for Oracle8i. Even readers who start out knowing nothing about HTML, PL/SQL, or Oracle's other tools will learn how to create simple Web applications in a matter of days. The book focuses on Oracle8i, but also covers Web development for earlier Oracle versions (Oracle8 and Oracle7). |
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Oracle WebDB Bible
By: Rick Greenwald, James Milbery Paperback - 787 pages (October 1999) I D G Books Worldwide Oracle's new run-anywhere browser-based tool delivers everything you need to deploy powerful database applications over the Internet. And this authoritative reference delivers everything you need to master the complete capabilities of WebDB -- database browsing, application development, component management, performance monitoring, even constructing entire Web sites with SiteBuilder. Written by two veteran database applications developers who were key contributors to the WebDB beta program, this encyclopedic guide will help you extend the rich functionality of WebDB -- and realize the full potential of your Web site. |
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Oracle XML Handbook (with CD-ROM)
By: Ben Chang, Mark Scardina, K. Karun, Stefan Kiritzov, Ian Macky, Niranjan Ramakrishnan Paperback - 357 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) From the only official publisher of Oracle Press books comes this unique resource--Oracle XML Handbook. This one-of-a-kind reference explains the XML standard, how to create XML documents, and how XML will transform legacy systems integration involving e-commerce initiatives. As more corporations migrate to an eBusiness model using Oracle8i--THE database for Internet computing--it's crucial for all of you Web developers to learn to use XML in the Oracle environment. This is your book. |
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Oracle and Unix Performance Tuning
By: Ahmed Alomari Paperback - 255 pages Bk & CD-ROM edition (June 1997) Prentice Hall A book/CD-ROM package on tuning both current Oracle releases and the underlying Solaris, HP-UX, or Sequent Dynix systems they run on, and on optimizing both OLTP and OLAP decision support systems. Presents a systematic approach to tuning Oracle databases based on UNIX, reviews UNIX kernal-related issues, and introduces techniques for tuning memory, processors, and I/O. Also covers optimizing SQL code. The companion CD-ROM contains tuning tools. Assumes basic understanding of SQL, UNIX shell language, and database administration. |
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Oracle8 & Unix Performance Tuning
By: Ahmed Alomari Paperback - 315 pages (August 1998) Prentice Hall Oracle Senior Performance Engineer Ahmed Alomari covers virtually every relevant optimization technique in Oracle8, Oracle7, and three leading versions of UNIX: Solaris 2.6, HP-UX 11, and Sequent Dynix-ptx 4.4. He presents in-depth coverage of both OLTP and DSS applications, covering optimization of the UNIX kernel, memory, processors and I/O, and all these major Oracle8 performance enhancements. |
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Oracle8 Advanced Tuning & Administration
By: Eyal Aronoff, Kevin Loney, Noorali Sonawalla Paperback - 660 pages (June 9, 1998) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Picks up teaching Oracle skills where Oracle8 DBA Handbook and Tuning Oracle leave off. Gives Oracle8 DBAs the advanced tools necessary to manage and tune their databases regardless of the rate of growth in the environment--a very important scalability skill. Revised to cover all new aspects of Oracle8, including: Partitioned tables, abstract datatypes, index-only tables, objects, and more. CD-ROM includes code from the book, plus a new version of SQLab--a valuable application tool that help readers practice advanced optimization techniques. The previous edition sold over 25,000 copies, and this new version gives Oracle8 DBAs the advanced tools necessary to manage and tune their databases regardless of the rate of growth in the environment. The CD-ROM includes code from the book plus a new version of SQLab. |
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Oracle8 Architecture
By: Steve Bobrowski Paperback - 356 pages authorized edition (October 1997) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) The book design has two primary goals. First, the book is a basic/intermediate level presentation of the primary concepts and software architecture of Oracle8. After reading this book, any type of Oracle8 user will have a solid, big-picture understanding of how Oracle8 fits into the world of serious data management applications. Second, the book is an excellent planning guide that will help a current Oracle user server to migrate Oracle7 databases and corresponding database server administrators and application developers need to understand to work with Oracle8. |
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Oracle8 Backup & Recovery Handbook
By: Rama Velpuri, Anand Adkoli Paperback - 608 pages authorized edition (January 1998) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing (Oracle Press) This edition, revised for Oracle8, focuses exclusively on issues related to backup and recovery. Complete coverage is given of Oracle on NT and the new object-oriented database features. The book also explores common user errors encountered with Oracle8 and how to fix them. Rama's book (like the rest of his other ones) is a life-saver. He has a unique way of presenting pertinent information (which otherwise could have been obtained the hard way) to the DBA. His writings on Oracle are the finest pieces out there now. He evokes the why's, what's and how to's with such clarity and accuracy that he implicitly brings added value to any DBA's overall ability and confidence level. It is a MUST HAVE. |
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Oracle8 DBA: Network Administration Exam Cram
By: Barbara Ann Pascavage Paperback - 337 pages (December 10, 1999) The Coriolis Group Specially designed and written to help you pass the Oracle8: Network Administration (1Z0-016) exam, Oracle DBA Network Administration Exam Cram is packed with time-saving study tips, test-taking strategies, and warnings on how to deal with trick questions. Includes a sixty-two question sample test with answer key and a special CRAM SHEET with tips, acronyms, and memory joggers with help you pass the exam the first time. Oracle DBA Network Administration Exam Cram will help you learn how to use the Net8 Assistant; configure local naming; configure host naming; configure an Oracle Names Server; set up connection pooling; configure LISTENER processes; set up multiple LISTENER processes on a server; configure client profiles; set parameters for MTS; monitor MTS processes; set up connection; start, stop, and monitor LISTENER; configure Intelligent Agent; start, stop, and monitor Intelligent Agent; implement security with Net8; troubleshoot Net8 problems on the client and the server, use the Connection Manager. |
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Oracle8 Data Warehousing
By: Michael J. Corey (Editor), Michael Abbey, Ben Taub, Ian Abramson Paperback - 686 pages (April 17, 1998) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press)
The first book available on Oracle8 Data Warehousing. Authored by the Oracle industry respected, best-selling author team of Abbey, Corey, Abramson, and Taub. Provides readers with a fundamental understanding of Data Warehousing and shows them how to implement the concept to their database environment. Includes coverage of Oracle's Express (analyzer) tool and other third-party tools. New chapters have been added to cover Oracle8's new and improved Data Warehousing features-new coverage includes: |
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Oracle8 Database Administration on Windows NT
By: Lynnwood Brown Paperback - 400 pages (October 1998) Prentice Hall Written for database administrators, this text covers architecture, installation, tuning, security, networking, and the basics of application development with PL/SQL. Addressing the fundamental enhancements that have been made to Oracle7, this title covers installation of Oracle8 on the Windows NT platform. The CD-ROM contains a trial version of DBAWare, a database performance and analysis tool from MenloSoftware. |
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Oracle8 Design Using UML Object Modeling
By: Paul Dorsey, Joseph R. Hudicka Paperback - 496 pages (December 1998) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Approved and authorized by today's leader in enterprise database technology, and available only from Osborne! No one covers Oracle in such depth and breadth, and with such proven success--over 300,000 Oracle Press books sold in 1997 alone! Oracle8's cutting edge object technology rewrites the rules of efficient database design--and will send thousands of experienced DBA's looking for expert advice; covers object and relational database and code design--including data models, denormalization, keys and indexes, special architecture and data warehousing; only book to cover Oracle8 and offer specific guidelines for implementing the physical model--from the best-selling author of Oracle Designer/2000 Handbook. The ultimate guide to designing with Oracle8's Object-Relational Model. The authors show users how to implement the concepts in the real world--teaching how to fully exploit the Object-oriented capabilities of Oracle8. They cover the often neglected areas of database design system requirements, like changes to records, data entry errors, and basic transaction history. |
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Oracle8 For Dummies
By: Carol McCullough, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Ned Dana Paperback - 358 pages (October 16, 1997) Hungry Minds, Inc Oracle is one of the most powerful, most sophisticated databases around. But let's face it -- the accompanying manuals leave something to be desired. Fortunately, with Oracle8 For Dummies, you can get up to speed quickly with the latest version of this top database program. Professional Oracle database administrator Carol McCullough covers all the essential topics, including Using SQL Worksheet, a utility that uses industry-standard SQL (Standard Query Language) to let you get at your data, wherever it may reside Working with a diagram to make sense of an existing database or to make your own new database sensible from the get-go Thinking in terms of objects and realizing their relational potential for your data Creating tables and controlling security and data sharing Generating precise, useful reports that transform mere data into valuable information Optimizing Oracle8 and your SQL programs for quick, as well as accurate, results Plus, Oracle8 For Dummies comes complete with a bonus Windows NT 4 CD-ROM containing a sample database along with sample scripts to experiment with and adapt for your own projects. |
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Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming
By: Scott Urman, Wendy Rinaldi Paperback - 1022 pages 2nd edition (January 15, 1997) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) This book will have the same basic structure as the first edition, with the addition of PL/SQL V3 features. New features sucy as LOs, and ADTs are integrated throughout the book. It will also include common business problems and their solutions using PL/SQL, using real-world examples where applicable. Because PL/SQL is a very popular language with Oracle databases, it is important for DBAs to understand how PL/SQL works and how to tune PL/SQL programs to make them run in the most efficient manner. This book details all the important features of PL/SQL 3.0 that are essential to Oracle developers, experienced programmers, and Oracle database administrators |
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Oracle8 Tuning
By: Michael J. Corey (Editor), Michael Abbey, Daniel J., Jr. Dechichio, Abbott Corey, Ian Abramson Paperback - 293 pages authorized edition (December 1997) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle8 Tuning provides the information database system administrators need to customize the Oracle8 database system to the specific needs of its users. Readers will learn strategies and systems to avoid problems, increase database speed, and ensure overall security. They'll also learn the basics of improving Oracle's performance as well as how to use its tools and networking capabilities. The author discusses optimization of DEC, SUN, and other popular platforms. |
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Oracle8: The Complete Reference
By: Kevin Loney, George K. Koch Hardcover - 1300 pages (September 1997) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle8: The Complete Reference is completely updated to cover versions 7.0 through 8. The book is organized in 6 parts. Part I introduces database concepts. Part II discusses SQL, the Structured Query Language which allows programmers to process information to and from a database. Part III is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Data Dictionary. Part IV discusses database design consideration. Part V is a big, alphabetical reference for virtually every Oracle command. Part VI lists the tables used in the book. The book offers both terrific coverage of using Oracle and a substantial command reference listing the syntax and sample usage for every major command. It also includes a new chapter called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Oracle Optimizer." This presents the SQL operations and tuning issues directed towards a beginner user audience. As with its predecessor, this book will include a CD-ROM. This is particularly valuable for readers for two reasons. First, since the book is large, having quick referencing capability on CD will be attractive to end-users. The sizeable reference section is perfect for electronic access. Secondly, the tables in the book will be accessible on the CD, so users will save both time and money. |
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Oracle8i Backup & Recovery
By: Rama Velpuri, Anand Adkoli, George Williams Paperback - 695 pages 1st edition (November 14, 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Data is king in today's Internet economy. It is ESSENTIAL that companies protect and maintain corporate and customer data. Includes information that every Oracle administrator and programmer must know in order to maximize uptime and recover data without compromising mission critical systems. The only book available on this critical topic. Includes actual corporate scenarios and case-studies. |
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Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide
By: Ulrike Schwinn, Jason S. Couchman, Jeremy Judson Hardcover - 1200 pages 1st edition Vol 1 (December 15, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Prepare to pass All Five exams required for OCP DBA Certification. The only OCP DBA exam guide officially authorized by Oracle Corporation, this book/CD-ROM package offers comprehensive coverage of all five required exams: 1Z0-001: SQL and PL/SQL, 1Z0-023: Database Administration, 1Z0-025: BackuRecovery, 1Z0-024: Tuning, 1Z0-026: Net8 Administration |
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Oracle8i DBA Bible
By: Jonathan Gennick, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Gerrit-Jan Linker Paperback - 1113 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (April 2000) Hungry Minds, Inc Oracle 8i is packed with new features, including an embedded Java Virtual Machine, expanded data warehousing capabilities, and enhanced DBA tools. This comprehensive guide shows you step-by-step how to make the most of this improved functionality - and master the day-to-day tools and challenges of Oracle database administration. From SQL Plus basics and performance-tuning options to recovery tips and WebDB strategies, Oracle 8i DBA Bible is all you need to optimize a database and keep it running smoothly. |
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Oracle8i DBA Handbook
By: Kevin Loney, Marlene L. Theriault Paperback - 979 pages (October 12, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) A thorough overhaul of the previous edition - widely considered the Oracle DBA "bible" - wth full coverage of all the new Oracle8i features. Covers everything the administrator needs to know to effectively manage a robust, peak-performance Oracle8i database. Explains how to configure Oracle to be accessed through a firewall from a DBA's perspective. "Solutions" sections illustrates - with annotations - how to implement the techniques described in each chapter. Maintain a robust, mission-critical Oracle8i database - the most manageable Web-enabled enterprise database system available. Oracle8i DBA Handbook provides high-end administrative solutions for the day-to-day DBA. Inside, you'll learn to set up a database for maximum efficiency, monitor it, tune it, and maintain its security. |
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Oracle8i DBA: Backup and Recovery Exam Cram: Exam: 1Z0-025
By: Debbie Wong Paperback - 448 pages 1st edition (September 10, 2001) The Coriolis Group Oracle 8i Backup and Recovery Exam Cram is the most recognized, and highly focused, exam preparation product available to professionals gearing up for the Oracle 8i Backup and Recovery exam (1Z0-025). The book's well organized, concise layout provides thorough coverage of test content and objectives like using Oracle export and import utilities, understanding utilities for troubleshooting, describing Oracle recovery catalog creation and maintenance, and configuring an Oracle standby database. In cludes the supportive Exam Cram features of helpful hints and tips, test taking strategies, realistic case studies, and challenging practice questions. |
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Oracle8i DBA: Performance Tuning Exam Cram: Exam: 1Z0-024
By: Zulfiqer Habeeb, Michael R. Ault Paperback - 448 pages 1st edition (October 15, 2001) The Coriolis Group Oracle 8i Performance and Tuning Exam Cram is the most recognized, and highly focused, exam preparation product available to professionals gearing up for the Oracle 8i Network Administration exam (1Z0-024). The book's well organized, concise layout provides thorough coverage of test content and objectives like describing Oracle Alert and Trace files, tuning the Shared Pool and Buffer Cache. |
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Oracle8i Internal Services: For Waits, Latches, Locks, and Memory
By: Steve Adams Paperback - 120 pages 2nd edition (October 1999) O'Reilly & Associates Advanced performance tuning with Oracle involves unraveling the mysteries of the SQL database's inner workings. Oracle8i Internal Services for Waits, Latches, Locks, and Memory peels back several layers of the Oracle onion to reveal how things really work. While the author claims his quest to get to the bottom of Oracle still continues, this book is a snapshot of his current knowledge of the performance-critical internals. The book's title tells the whole story about its content. It focuses on waits, latches, locks, and memory allocation because they have a dramatic effect on overall performance. Each of these topics is presented separately, with explanations of how each works under the hood and what can be done to optimize it. Although the title offers plenty of architectural explanation, a solid foundation into Oracle 8i release 8.1 (the version addressed by the author) is a prerequisite for understanding this text. The presentation includes few diagrams. Instead, the author makes a special effort to list relevant Oracle parameters and their descriptions in tables, as well as examples of statistics that can be used in optimization. This is a guide for advanced administrators already on a solid footing with Oracle8i and offers plenty of insight into the crucial undocumented aspects of the relational database. |
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Oracle8i Networking 101 (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
By: Marlene L. Theriault Paperback - 553 pages 1st edition (August 25, 2000) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Teaches beginners the essentials of running Oracle8i on a network, and advises IT managers and security administrators on a full complement of industry-compliant features designed to protect against security hazards. The only title yet published explicitly on Oracle8i Networking. Integrates Oracle servers with network services and Internet services, including advanced networking and security options. Covers integration of Oracle into the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). (Osborne) Explains how interactions over a network take place. Describes the hardware and software required, and how all the components interface to produce successful communications between computers and databases. Contains step-by-step procedures illustrated by screen shots. Details on Internet protocols and network encryption are included. |
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Oracle8i SQLJ Programming
By: Nirva Morisseau-Leroy, Martin K. Solomon, Gerald P. Momplaisir, Thomas Kurian, Edward Griffin Paperback - 557 pages (November 5, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) SQL/J is the new standard tool emerging from Oracle - in conjunction with IBM and Tandem - for developing Java database applications using less Java code. First to market - we'll provide the ultimate resource for Oracle database developers looking to simplify the process of creating Java applications. Step-by-step details on using SQLJ in the Oracle8i environment, including real-world case studies demonstrating SQLJ's practical applications. Create powerful portable applications with SQLJ. Enable Java to go where it's never gone before! Oracle8i SQLJ Programming explains in detail how to implement SQLJ--the new standard for embedding static SQL directly into Java programs. With SQLJ, you'll use less code and get enhanced portability, compile-time checking, and so much more. This authoritative guide shows you how to create cross-platform, distributed, and Web-enabled applications designed specifically for Oracle8i. |
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Oracle8i Web Development
By: Bradley D. Brown, Brad Brown Paperback - 1119 pages (December 16, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle delivers unprecedented ease-of-use, power and performance for e-commerce applications - and Oracle8i is the database for Internet computing. 80% of all Web sites use Oracle as a back-end. Contains time-saving, undocumented methods for developing Internet application using Oracle and Oracle Application Server. Packed with hundreds of real-world examples and insider secrets compiled from TUSC's standing-room-only conference presentations and Oracle user Groups worldwide. |
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Oracle8i and Unix Performance Tuning
By: Ahmed Alomari Paperback - 415 pages 1st edition (September 15, 2000) Prentice Hall The purpose of this book is to share my experiences in the areas of UNIX and Oracle performance and tuning. The chapters of this book provide a tremendous level of detail on the internal workings of the Oracle and UNIX kernels. The purpose of including so much detail is to give the reader a complete understanding of Oracle and UNIX. It is this understanding that will enable the reader to apply these concepts to specific applications and/or user environments, thus enabling the reader to maximize the performance of his or her environment. It is a key characteristic of this book that only the latest versions of Oracle and UNIX are discussed, such as Oracle8i and Solaris 8. This will enable the reader to focus on the functionality and enhancements of the new versions, avoiding discussion of old releases. Another characteristic of this book is that I have organized it into two major areas: data warehousing and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP). This edition of the book places more of an emphasis on application tuning since the application has the most control over the overall performance and scalability. It is important that the application be well designed and highly optimized. Recommended prerequisites for this book are a basic understanding of SQL, UNIX shell language, and experience with UNIX system and Oracle database administration. |
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Oracle8i for Linux Starter Kit (Book/CD-ROM Package)
By: Steve Bobrowski PPaperback - 478 pages (August 17, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) From the official publisher of Oracle Press books comes this complete book/CD-ROM package for deploying and running Oracle8i on the Linux platform. You'll get step-by-step details on installation, customization, administration, and troubleshooting. Plus, the CD-ROM contains the official version of Oracle8i for Linux and Enterprise Manager. You'll get everything you need to get up and running on Oracle8i for Linux. (Osborne) Provides the user with everything needed to get started using Oracle8i on the Linux platform. Provides a collection of tutorials and step-by-step guidelines that provides the user with key concepts and hands-on experience necessary to install and deploy Oracle8i on Linux. |
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Oracle8i for Windows NT Starter Kit
By: Steve Bobrowski Paperback - 481 pages (November 17, 1999) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Oracle 8i - The Database for Internet Computing. The new release of the Oracle database, Oracle8i, provides the industry's most complete and innovative platform for building and deploying Internet and enterprise applications. Oracle technology is already used by many global Internet brands, such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Egghead, and the release of Oracle8i will cement Oracle's position as the leader for e-commerce solutions. New to Oracle Press - the new Starter Kit line of titles will serve as turnkey solutions for Oracle database technology. Standard Starter Kit elements will include: Complete coverage of installation, administration, and troubleshooting. Actual, fullyabled Oracle product on CD-ROM. Oracle8i for Windows NT Provides all the features needed to run a business on Windows NT for enterprise-wide deployment. The ideal self-contained book/disk learning tool for Oracle DBAs deploying Oracle8i in the Windows NT platform. Covers ORacle fundamentals, planning and installing Oracle 8i, PL/SWL, objects, backup and recovery, and more. |
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Oracle8i: Java Components
By: Nirva Morisseau-Leroy, Martin K. Solomon, Julie Basu Paperback - 697 pages CD-ROM edition (January 15, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Covers two of the most popular server-side component models: Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). Cutting-edge topics--full details on generating Java Server Pages (JSP) with Java Servlets. Expert, authoritative authors, including product manager of JSP at Oracle. Bonus CD-ROM contains ready-to-run scripts and Java applications. A comprehensive reference for developing Java software components for the Oracle 8i database. The CD-ROM contains SQL scripts to create Purchase Order and Observation schemas as well as all of the source code from the text. Softcover. |
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Oracle8i: The Complete Reference
By: Kevin Loney, George K. Koch Hardcover - 1308 pages (May 23, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Provides a comprehensive understanding of database development on the Internet. DBAs will benefit from coverage on the Web Development environment usage and the Internet File System (IFS) feature. Describes the scalable, integrated and robust Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which allows DBAs to write, store, and execute Java code. CD-ROM offers scripts and codes from the book. |
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Oracle9i SQLJ Programming
By: Nirva Morisseau-Leroy, Martin K. Solomon, Gerald P. Momplaisir Paperback - 687 pages CD-Rom edition (June 27, 2001) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing (Oracle Press) From the official publishers of Oracle Press books, here is an essential handbook for developers and administrators working with Oracle Portal. The book explains how to build and deploy portal-driven Web sites using Oracle Portal. Step-by-step walkthroughs and significant code samples demonstrate methods for rapidly creating robust forms, reports, charts,and content management applications. Written by a member of the Oracle Portal Customer Advisory Board (CAB) and a member of the IOUG-A Portal Special Interest Group (SIG), this Oracle-authorized resource includes Oracle 9i Application Server 1.0.2.2 on CD-ROM. |
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Oracle9i XML Handbook
By: Ben Chang, Stefan Kiritzov, Mark Scardina Paperback - 576 pages 2nd edition (September 26, 2001) McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing From the official Oracle Press comes a comprehensive guide to developing XML-based e-Commerce applications on the Oracle Internet Platform. Written by the Oracle XML Development Team, this insider's resource explains how to take full advantage of the Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDKs) and maximize Oracle9i's XML-enabled features. Create and deploy cross-platform, transaction-based applications on Oracle9i with XML--the industry standard for describing data for e-business application integration and business-to-business exchanges. Written by members of the Oracle XML Development Team, this insider's resource explains how to take full advantage of the Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK) to build, manipulate, transform, and view XML documents. You'll also learn from real-world case studies |
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PeopleSoft Administrator's Guide
By: Darrell Bilbrey Paperback - 560 pages 1st edition (February 11, 1999) Sybex This book is the only administrator's resource for PeopleSoft and covers not only the latest version, 7.5, but earlier ones as well. PeopleSoft installations are notoriously difficult to administer, and this book has everything administrators need to know, whether they are using the Human Resources, Financials, or other modules. Coverage includes setting up the system, security, performance tuning, dealing with upgrades, disaster recovery, troubleshooting advice, and planning for the future. The book also covers the development tools that an administrator must know about, because 90 percent of an administrator's problems are data-related. Bilbrey is a Human Resources IS manager and internal systems consultant for a large insurance company in the southeast. |
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PeopleSoft Step By Step
By: Holly Ngo Paperback - 320 pages (December 12, 1999) MIS Technology Solutions PeopleSoft has become one of the leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software companies. The number of companies that use PeopleSoft ERP software keeps increasing. This step-by-step book is the easiest and least expensive way to teach yourself essential PeopleSoft skills to advance your professional career in the fast growing field of ERP programming. The readers will learn PeopleSoft database software by doing the exercises in the book, following the step-by-step procedures illustrated with numerous figures of the application windows. |
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Peoplesoft Developer's Handbook
By: Richard Gillespie, Joann Gillespie Paperback - 601 pages (June 1999) Computing McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) A real-world reference on how an application is developed with PeopleSoft software (PeopleTools), including information on relational entities, data objects, default functionality, and error checking. The book uses detailed, step-by-step examples of an actual application created by the author for a client, and includes a multitude of screen shots and CD-ROM screen cam files that explain exactly how to implement these examples. This book is not module specific. It covers the technical topics that are taught in several weeks of PeopleSoft training.($$$) This book is primarily for people who are new to PeopleSoft and or their primary job is functional. If this describes you and you would like to understand how you can use the PeopleSoft building blocks to create new functionality, this book is for you. Along with the basic PeopleSoft objects, the book includes sections on PeopleCode and SQR. |
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Perl CD Bookshelf 2.0 CD-ROM
By: O'Reilly, Inc. Associates (Editor) CD-ROM edition (May 15, 2001) O'Reilly & Associates Perl programmers increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve technical problems. Version 2.0 of O'Reilly's Perl CD Bookshelf gives you convenient online access to your favorite books from your CD-ROM drive. This updated version of The Perl CD Bookshelf contains the third edition of Programming Perl; a new book, Perl for System Administration; and a powerhouse of other O'Reilly Animal Guides. You'll have access to the combined resources of complete, unabridged versions of Perl in a Nutshell, Perl Cookbook, and Advanced Perl Programming, along with the new books. As a bonus, we've enclosed the paperback version of Perl in a Nutshell. Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, what you need to know online. Formatted in HTML, The Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0, can be accessed with any web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, there is a master index for the entire library. With the CD Bookshelf, you get a complete Perl library that you can easily carry with you anywhere you need it. |
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PowerBuilder 7.0 Unleashed
By: Ramesh Chandak (Editor), Purshottam Chandak Paperback - 1200 pages 3rd (December 9, 1999) Sams PowerBuilder 7.0 Unleashed is an excellent one-volume reference to new features in Sybase's well-known programming tool, with good coverage of its support for distributed and Internet-based computing. Ideal for any intermediate developer, this book compiles a host of useful tips for getting the most out of your PowerBuilder applications, providing a soup-to-nuts tour of PowerBuilder, plus full coverage of its various "painter" tools (such as the Window, Application, and Menu Painters). The new and advanced features in the PB environment are explained thoroughly. Short, task-based programming excerpts that show how to carry out specific tasks are the rule here. The discussion of the DataWindow control (traditionally the most powerful feature of PB) is outstanding in this book. Several chapters cover basic and advanced programming techniques and include valuable insights on optimizing the performance of this powerful object. Advanced material looks at ways to extend DataWindows, such as customizing SQL, printing, and managing master-detail relationships effectively. (There's also material here on using the HTML version and plug-in versions of DataWindow for browser-based interfaces.) PowerBuilder's traditional support for databases is in ample evidence here, along with an excellent tour of database design, SQL, and hints for optimizing DB performance. |
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PowerBuilder Slick Tricks - The Book
By: Bernhard Metzger Spiral-bound - 201 pages Spiral edition (December 16, 1998) Envision Software Systems Bernie came up with the idea as he realized that PowerBuilder's richness presents a great learning challenge. A large part of that learning involves 'inventing' the tricks one needs to solve specific problems. Bernie believed that other PowerBuilder developers were treading a similar path and were 'inventing' their own tricks. He conceived the 'Slick Tricks' column as a means for this community to share these tricks. Over the course of the last fifty months Bernie has been building up a collection of these tricks and has found them to be useful in his consulting engagements. Now you can have these slick tricks, originally published in the PBDJ and enjoyed by thousands, in a bound and indexed edition. You will not find a book like this anywhere else. |
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Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases
By: Jonathan Lewis Paperback - 640 pages 1st edition (January 15, 2001) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company A lot of books seem to give canned explanations of how oracle works - geared towards rote memorization as opposed to understanding. This book does a great job of taking the next step. For example, The detail with which the author goes through the process of how updating a row actually works in an Oracle database was tremendous. His explanation of how a select statement could actually cause a row to be marked as committed ( i.e. a read causes a write ) was great. I've only been a DBA (or pseudo-D BA) for about 6 months now, so I'm certainly no expert in this area. Yet I found all of his explanations very clear and easy to understand. If you're looking for a new Oracle book, get this one. |
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Professional Linux Programming
By: Neil Matthew and Richard Stones, Brad Clements, Christopher Browne, Andrew Froggatt, et al Perfect Paperback - 1200 pages 1st edition (September 2000) Wrox Press Inc By tapping the strengths of the open-source movement, developers can write custom Linux software without spending a dime on licensing fees. Aimed at the experienced C/C++ programmer, Professional Linux Programming provides a wide-ranging and hands-on guide to the different pieces of the puzzle that are required to program successfully on this exciting new platform. The book is framed as a case study for building a custom database program in Linux for a video rental store. After a tour of the requirements and a brief look at project management for creating this software, the various Linux packages that are needed to implement this system are described, along with sample code, most of which is written in C. Some packages, such as the CVS version-control package, come with most distributions of Linux; others will require downloading additional software over the Internet. In every case, you're provided with the actual command-line arguments that are needed to install, configure, and run each package. Two prominent chapters take you on a tour of the essentials of other programming languages. There's PHP for Web development and an appealing, enthusiastic introduction to Python (which probably will turn you into a Python convert). Later chapters provide practical tips for testing and debugging applications, including how to profile your code. The book closes with a useful guide to creating Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages for deploying applications, as well as an overview of your options for internationalization. |
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Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML
By: Guy Ruth-Haymond, Glenn E. Mitchell II, Kevin Mukhar, Gary Nicol, Daniel O'Connor, ... Paperback - 1200 pages (December 2000) Wrox Press Inc Oracle Corporation has broadened its development platform, integrating open standards such as Java and XML into the heart of the Oracle 8i database. This extended programming environment continues to exploit the qualities of scalability, reliability and efficiency of the world's most successful data management software, but at the same time it provides new challenges and opportunities to programmers. This book shows you how to develop enterprise PL/SQL applications exploiting Java and XML, and how technologies such as EJBs can be moved to the 8i database. You'll work through case studies using a mix of both familiar and unfamiliar tools and languages, showing you how the various programming approaches can enhance each other. |
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Programming Perl (3rd Edition)
By: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant Paperback - 1067 pages 3rd edition (July 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Perl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this book. Programming Perl is not just a book about Perl. It is also a unique introduction to the language and its culture, as you might expect only from its authors. Larry Wall is the inventor of Perl, and provides a unique perspective on the evolution of Perl and its future direction. Tom Christiansen was one of the first champions of the language, and lives and breathes the complexities of Perl internals as few other mortals do. Jon Orwant is the editor of The Perl Journal, which has brought together the Perl community as a common forum for new developments in Perl. |
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Programming Python (2nd Edition)
By: Mark Lutz Paperback - 1292 pages 2nd edition (March 2001) O'Reilly & Associates Completely revised and improved, the second edition of Programming Python is an excellent compendium of material geared toward the more knowledgeable Python developer. It includes dozens of reusable scripts for common scripting tasks, and is one of the best available sources of information for this popular object-oriented scripting language. In over 1,200 pages of material, this book offers an extremely comprehensive guide to Python development. Though his book is densely packed with information, Mark Lutz is a lively and witty writer whose focus is on getting things done using the natural strengths of the Python language. To that end, after an introduction and history of the language, the book shows how to use Python for performing automated tasks with files and directories (for example, for doing backups both locally and on Web servers). Not only will this book teach you more about Python, but it will also give you a library of code that you can use as is or adapt for your own projects. |
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Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software
By: Shawn P. Wallace, Richard Koman (Editor) Paperback - 470 pages 1 edition (February 1999) O'Reilly & Associates From access counters and log-report graphs to scientific plots and on-the-fly animated GIFs, graphics scripting is within the grasp of most Web authors. However, it is a poorly documented field. Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software shows intermediate and advanced Web designers how to use CGI scripts to generate dynamic graphic content and demystifies the manipulation of graphics formats for newcomers to the Web. "Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software" shows intermediate and advanced Web designers how to use CGI scripts to generate dynamic graphic content and demystifies the manipulation of graphics formats for newcomers to the Web. |
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Programming the Perl DBI
By: Alligator Descartes, Tim Bunce Paperback - 346 pages (February 2000) O'Reilly & Associates "The DBI is a database interface module for Perl. It defines a set of methods, variables and conventions that provide a consistent database interface independent of the actual database being used", explains Bunce, the architect and inventor of DBI. He and Descartes, one of the most active members of the DBI community, explain the architecture of DBI and show how to write DBI-based programs. For the DBI expert, they cover the nuances and peculiarities of each individual database driver. The basics of databases are well-covered, but some experience programming with Perl is assumed. One of the greatest strengths of the Perl programming language is its ability to manipulate large amounts of data. Database programming is therefore a natural fit for Perl, not only for business applications but also for CGI-based Web and Intranet applications. |
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Programming with Oracle Developer
By: Matthew Bennett, Joe Duer Paperback - 360 pages 1st edition (September 17, 2001) Sams Programming with Oracle Developer is packed with expert advice, detailed explanations, and complete solutions that show you how to produce robust, precise, Internet-ready applications for developers. You'll get step-by-step guidance from prototyping through delivering a high-powered Internet application. After reading this book, the reader willUnderstand the nuts and bolts of building applications, including how to choose an appropriate application development life cycleMaster design and prototyping issues including the new wizards and GUI design features of Developer forms, reports, and graphicsExtend the reusability and optimize the security of your applicationsDeploy Internet applications and integrate them with other toolsCreate robust, Web-enabled Oracle applications |
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Python 2.1 Bible
By: David Brueck, Stephen Tanner Paperback - 750 pages (June 2001) Hungry Minds, Inc
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Python Essential Reference (Second Edition)
By: David M. Beazley Paperback - 416 pages 2nd edition (June 7, 2001) New Riders Publishing For anyone who programs in Python, David M. Beazley's Python Essential Reference, Second Edition will serve as a capable and exceptionally competent guide to current Python syntax and library modules. Concise, yet authoritative, this book sets a high standard as a one-volume reference to this powerful object-oriented programming language. Although the author claims that this title is not really a tutorial, the first 100 pages actually provide an excellent guide to the basics of Python as a language. Geared especially to the experienced programmer seeking to see what's different (and potentially better) about Python, sections on the language itself will let you ramp up on the basic and advanced topics. Short sections with code excerpts that show off essential language features will help you learn or enhance your knowledge of Python quickly. Standout sections here include excellent coverage of object-oriented features, like "special methods" that will let you add custom classes to Pytho n that are just as flexible as built-in classes. |
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Python Programming on Win 32
By: Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson Paperback - 652 pages (January 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Python Programming on Win32 zeroes in on the strengths of the Python programming language for the Windows platform. If you would like to use Python on Windows with Office 2000, this book is a perfect choice for getting started. While it's not an introduction to Python programming itself, the book does present some basic Python examples. (The authors do provide an impressive list of real-world projects that have used Python successfully, including an application at NASA and a major Web search engine.) In lieu of a general language tour, this book centers on practical tips and examples for using Python on Windows, beginning with downloading and installing the free Python package. The most useful examples here present a Python library for general accounting objects. You'll learn how to write COM servers in Python and then how to script them in Visual Basic (used here to build user interfaces) and how to control Word and Excel with OLE Automation in Python. One standout example looks at building and printing accounting reports in Office 2000 using Python as the script language. |
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Python Standard Library
By: Fredrik Lundh, Frederik Lundh Paperback - 281 pages Bk & CD-ROM edition (May 2001) O'Reilly & Associates Ideal for any working Python developer, Fredrik Lundh's Python Standard Library provides an excellent tour of some of the most important modules in today's Python 2.0 standard. Mixing sample code and plenty of expert advice, this title will be indispensable for programmers. The book presents sample script code--written by a frequent contributor to Python newsgroups--for almost 200 of the built-in modules in Python 2.0 and shows how to solve common programming problems in Python. Instead of a function-based reference, you get sample scripts for a wide variety of solutions centering on different Python modules. Early sections look at core modules for working with the operating system, math, and strings, among other functions. Material on Python's excellent support for files and directories will help you master the file system. Explanations of various encryption schemes will let you add security to your Python scripts. |
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SAP R/3 Performance Optimization: The Official SAP Guide
By: Thomas Schneider Hardcover - 624 pages 1st edition (August 1999) Sybex SAP R/3 Performance Optimization: The Official SAP Guide is an essential foundation for R/3 administrators, technical consultants, ABAP developers, and SAP project leaders. Filled with firsthand knowledge gathered using SAP. EarlyWatch and GoingLive Check remote services, this book teaches you how to fine-tune your R/3 implementation - so your organization reaps the benefits of shorter response times and lower overhead. In concert with the companion CD, this book also helps to prepare you to qualify as a Certified Technical Consultant (CTC) for R/3 Release 4.0 |
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SAP R/3 System Administration: The Official SAP Guide
By: Liane Will Hardcover - 533 pages (March 1999) Sybex Get the inside scoop on how to set up a smooth installation directly from SAP authors. Not just a user manual or a description of the architecture, this book studies the complexities of setting up and running an R/3 System from the System Administrator's perspective. Filled with practical instructions and design guidance, you will learn about protocols, permissions, security, extending OSS, system evaluation, archiving, and report distribution. Plus the CD includes a test engine, useful toward becoming an SAP Certified Technical Consultant. |
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SAP R/3 and Oracle Backup and Recovery
By: Greg Spence Hardcover - 181 pages 1 edition (July 23, 1999) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Provides vital practical assistance to anyone planning the backup and recovery of a very large database system, describing a combined backup and recovery approach for both Oracle and SAP. Describes new features, functions, and tools available in the latest releases of SAP and Oracle and explains how they impact the backup and recovery strategy. Includes diagnosis and interpretation checklists. The author has 16 years of experience working with Oracle and SAP. |
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SQR in Peoplesoft and Other Applications
By: Galina Landres, Vlad Landres, Vlad Landers Paperback - 600 pages (July 1999) Manning Publications Company "Structured Query Report Writer may not sound exciting at first, but where else can you find a programming tool ... that works with nearly all known relational databases and operating systems, ... and is easy to learn?" So query a consultant couple who cover SQR's basic and advanced features and command syntax for programs integrated with and alien to PeopleSoft applications (covered in the last five chapters). Includes a sample database, standard computer screen graphics, and a bibliography for further queries. "Presented as a tutorial, SQR in PeopleSoft and Other Applications addresses the fundamental SQR language elements with an judicious eye towards making the most of SQR's capabilities. In addition to over one hundred realistic examples for both the novice and veteran, various approaches are offered and critiqued for each problem. Perhaps the *only* available source for real world PeopleSoft problems! |
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Sap R/3 Change and Transport Management: The Official Sap Guide
By: Sue McFarland Metzger, Susanne Roehrs, Sue McFarland Metzger Hardcover - 895 pages (January 12, 2000) Sybex This is the fourth book in Sybex's series of official SAP books. This book's focus is on preparing a new SAP installation for future changes and the transportation of data system-wide. You'll find valuable information on how to use a business blueprint and system architecture to your company's greatest benefit. Written by a staff member at SAP, you'll find detailed information to guide you toward getting the most out of your R/3 system. And you'll find a wealth of information and an interactive demo exam on the CD to help you prepare for the CTC (Certified Technical Consultant) exam. |
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Scaling Oracle8i: Building Highly Scalable OLTP System Architectures
By: James Morle Paperback - 544 pages (December 17, 1999) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company As open systems continue to replace traditional mainframe systems, system scalability is becoming an increasingly important topic. Although far more flexible than mainframe systems, open systems applications tend to be less reliable and more difficult to scale. There is no cookbook approach to solving this challenge: A thorough understanding of the technologies involved is essential for designing scalable solutions that meet long-term business needs. Scaling Oracle8i(tm) offers valuable insights and techniques for designing reliable and scalable online transaction processing (OLTP) applications using Oracle. This book focuses on providing the in-depth information about Oracle and the underlying hardware required to build systems that scale effectively. You will find coverage of relevant hardware and I/O operation; benchmark and database monitoring systems; Oracle internals, operation, and implementation; and UNIX operating system issues that impact Oracle performance and scalability. |
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Scripting Windows 2000
By: Jeffrey Honeyman Paperback - 444 pages (April 19, 2000) Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) Learn to manage, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 2000 using the Windows Script Host (WSH). This expertly written resource explains how to automate tedious tasks at the command line or from within the Windows GUI. You'll learn to implement the latest versions of VBScript, JScript, ADSI, and WMI and avoid commonly overlooked Windows 2000 pitfalls and scripting errors. |
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Special Edition Using Oracle 11i
By: BOSS Corporation Hardcover - 1200 pages 1st edition (September 17, 2001) Que
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Teach Yourself Peoplesoft in 10 Minutes (Teach Yourself...)
By: Timothy Buchanan Paperback - 198 pages 1 edition (June 1999) Sams SAMS Teach Yourself PeopleSoft in 10 Minutes focuses on the end-user by covering general tasks including basic navigation skills, working with master data and running reports. This book covers the general PeopleSoft functions that every end-user of PeopleSoft-based applications must know. You will learn all the essential tasks for running PeopleSoft-based applications smoothly and easily. Using concise 10-minute lessons, you will learn how to log on to PeopleSoft, access the PeopleSoft modules, use basic navigation skills, work with master data, generate reports, read and interpret common error messages, and access extensive online help features. |
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The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Logical Data and Data Warehouse Designs
By: Len Silverston, Kent Graziano, William H. Inmon Paperback - 355 pages (March 1997) John Wiley & Sons Offers a set of proven data models and data warehouse designs for the core functions shared by most businesses, with detailed models for marketing and sales, human resources, inventory, professional services, billing, accounting, and other organization functions. A CD-ROM is available by mail. Of interest to systems development professionals including data administrators, data modelers, database designers, and data analysts. Proven data models that save companies' time and money developing data architectures, databases and data warehouses. The Data Model Resource Book provides a common set of data models for specific functions common to most businesses, such as sales, marketing, order processing, contracts, shipments, invoicing, work efforts, budgeting, and accounting. Readers can apply more than one data model to their own company to meet specific data needs. |
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The Data Modeling Handbook: A Best-Practice Approach to Building Quality Data Models
By: Michael Reingruber, William W. Gregory Hardcover - 362 pages (December 1994) John Wiley & Sons This practical, field-tested reference doesn't just explain the characteristics of finished, high-quality data models--it shows readers exactly how to build one. It presents rules and best practices in several notations, including IDEFIX, Martin, Chen, and Finkelstein. The book offers dozens of real-world examples and go beyond basic theory to provide users with practical guidance. Packed with real-world examples, annotated diagrams, and a wealth of rules and best practices. Provides experienced data modelers, architects, and engineers with hands-on guidance. DLC: Database design. |
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The Data Webhouse Toolkit: Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse
By: Ralph Kimball, Richard Merz Paperback - 416 pages 1 edition (January 20, 2000) John Wiley & Sons In this groundbreaking work, authors and data warehousing visionaries Ralph Kimball and Richard Merz explore a next-generation Web site architecture that exploits the unique nature of the Web's interactivity to dramatically improve an organization's understanding of its relationship with users. The Data Webhouse Toolkit isn't a how-to manual; it is a high-level look at an ambitious new approach to system design. The foundation of the concept of Webhouses is the "clickstream"--the plethora of inf ormation that can be gleaned if only a system could capture and accurately analyze all of the interaction (or lack thereof) that occurs between Web users and the sites they access. The authors take a careful look at all of the valuable information in the clickstream and point out the complications of compiling this precious information from various gathering sources such as the user's machine, ISP, and Web site. The book argues strongly for the application of data warehousing and dimensional analysis to the clickstream to radically improve the strategic knowledge of customer motives and actions. While there are no real-life case studies yet to illustrate the concept, this book is bound to whet the appetites of creative entrepreneurs and system architects. |
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The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf (O'Reilly Linux)
By: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainbour, Stephen Figgins, Jessica Hekman, O'Reilly Associates Paperback - 812 pages 3rd Bk&cdr edition (September 2001) O'Reilly & Associates More and more, technology professionals are relying on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve their tough problems. Now O'Reilly's Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf gives you the same convenient online access to your favorite O'Reilly books - from your CD-ROM drive. The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf delivers the information power of six complete O'Reilly Animal Guides covering the best of the open source web platform. We've included unabridged versions of Running Linux, 3rd Edition; Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition; Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition; MySQL & mSQL; Programming the Perl DBI; and CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition. As a bonus, you also get the new paperback version of Linux in a Nutshell. This confluence of open source technologies represents the platform of choice for developing and deploying high performance web applications. Apache, MySQL, and Perl/Python/PHP are the tools that make Linux a great applications development platform, especially for robust web applications that run on Linux servers. Never has it been easier to find what you need to know about Linux web servers online. Formatted in HTML, The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf can be accessed with any web browser. The books - all 3276 pages of O'Reilly reference and tutorials - are fully searchable and cross-referenced, so you can search the individual index for each book or the master index for the entire collection. With the CD Bookshelf, you have a complete li brary of technical books that you can easily carry with you anywhere you need it. |
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The Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf: 7 Bestselling Books on CD-ROM
By: O'Reilly, Inc. Associates (Editor) Software Bk/CDR/dsk edition (July 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Computer professionals increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to relieve information pain. Now O'Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf allows convenient online access to updates of favorite O'Reilly Oracle books. The Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf contains a powerhouse of Animal books for the Oracle PL/SQL developer--all readable with a web browser on a convenient CD-ROM. A bonus hard-copy book, Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Guide to Oracle 8i Features, is also included. In addition, the CD-ROM includes the complete text of seven books: Oracle PL/SQL Programming; Advanced PL/SQL Programming; Oracle Web Applications; Oracle Built-in Packages; Oracle PL/SQL Pocket Reference; Oracle Built-ins Pocket Reference; and Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Guide to Oracle 8i Features. Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, needed information. Formatted in HTML, The Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf can be read by any web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, there's a master index for the entire library. |
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The Perl CD Bookshelf: 6 Bestselling Books on CD-ROM
By: O'Reilly & Associates Software CD-ROM edition (August 1999) O'Reilly & Associates Perl programmers increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve information pain. Now O'Reilly's Perl CD Bookshelf gives you convenient online access to your favorite books from your CD-ROM drive. The Perl CD Bookshelf contains a powerhouse of O'Reilly Animal Guides. Included are complete, unabridged versions of Perl in a Nutshell; Programming Perl, 2nd Edition; Perl Cookbook; Advanced Perl Programming; Learning Perl; and Learning Perl on Win32 Systems. As a bonus, the new hard-copy version of Perl in a Nutshell is also included. Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, what you need to know online. Formatted in HTML, The Perl CD Bookshelf can be accessed with any Web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, a master index for the entire library is provided. |
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The UNIX CD Bookshelf, 2nd Edition (w/ CD-ROM)
By: Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly & Associates Paperback - 624 pages 3rd edition (February 2000) O'Reilly & Associates Computer professionals increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve information pain. Now the second edition of O'Reilly's Unix CD Bookshelf gives you convenient online access to updates of your favorite books on your CD-ROM drive. The UNIX CD Bookshelf contains a powerhouse of UNIX Animal books from O'Reilly plus the complete text and software from UNIX Power Tools -- all readable with your Web browser on a convenient CD-ROM. A bonus hard-copy book, UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, is also included. In addition to UNIX Power Tools, you'll find the complete text of the following books: Learning the UNIX Operating System, 4th Edition; Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition (also new); sed & awk, 2nd Edition; Learning the Korn Shell; and UNIX in a Nutshell, System V Edition. Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, what you need to know online. Formatted in HTML, The UNIX CD Bookshelf can be read by any Web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, a master index for the entire library is provided. |
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UML for Database Design
By: Eric J. Naiburg, Robert A. Maksimchuk Paperback - 320 pages 1st edition (July 24, 2001) Addison-Wesley Pub Co The Unified Modeling Language (UML), the standard graphical notation for modeling business and software application needs, has emerged as an effective modeling tool for database design. When used as a common modeling language for the many facets of system development, the UML can serve as a unifying framework that facilitates the integration of database models with the rest of a system design. This pragmatic guide introduces you to the UML and leads you through the process of UML-based database modeling and design. The book presents the different types of UML diagrams, explaining how they apply to the database world, and shows how data modeling with the UML can be tied into the Rational Unified Process. UML for Database Design is structured around the database design process: business use case modeling, business object modeling, database requirements definition, analysis and preliminary design, and, finally, detailed design and deployment. For each phase of development the book describes the overall objectives and workflow of that phase, the status of the case study, the relevant UML constructs, and the nuts and bolts of database modeling and design with the UML. Drawing on their extensive industry experience, the authors reveal the trials and tribulations of database development teams, lessons learned, and pointers for success. Topics covered include: The business use case model Activity and sequence diagrams for modeling database functions and tasks Moving from the business to system model Class diagrams and statecharts Mapping classes to tables Transformation of attributes Rational's UML Profile for Database Design Creating tables from classes DDL scripts, component diagrams, and deployment diagrams |
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Understanding SQL and Java Together: A Guide to SQLJ, JDBC, and Related Technologies
By: Jim Melton, Andrew Eisenberg, Rick Cattell Paperback - 512 pages Book & CD-ROM 1st edition (May 2000) Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Database vendors like Oracle and Sybase have signed on quickly with Java support. The result has been a growing list of database standards (like SQLJ) that let DBMS products interoperate with Java. Written for the competent programmer, Understanding SQL and Java Together surveys all of today's standards for making database development easier with Java. Many books on Java cover JDBC in detail, but this title goes much further by surveying a handful of other database standards from a variety of vendors, including Oracle and Sybase. (Don't worry: there's full coverage of JDBC for versions 1.0 and 2.0.) The real focus of this book is on SQLJ, which really comprises three standards. SQLJ Part 0 is the easiest to understand, as it supports embedded SQL calls within Java code. Next comes SQLJ Part 1, by which a database product (like Oracle) can use Java to define stored procedures. Here, the authors take care to show off how to deploy JAR files into a database. (Their sample movie database, used throughout this book, is both comprehensible and a little more entertaining than most sample database schemas.) |
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Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference
By: Donald K. Burleson Paperback - 109 pages (May 2001) O'Reilly & Associates The Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference has a remarkably tight focus. It's about making Oracle database management systems run optimally under various Unix operating systems, including HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and IBM AIX (there's also some specialized coverage of IRIX and DEC Unix). Author Donald Burleson assumes readers know how to get around the Unix command shell, and that they're quite familiar with Oracle database administration. To put it simply, to get the most out of this book, you should already know what you want to do, and need only to be told concisely how to do it. This book is ideal for people moving from Oracle administration under Windows to the same job under Unix. |
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Using Oracle Applications (Special Edition)
By: Jim Crum Hardcover - 912 pages 1 edition (April 20, 2000) Que Helps users and information technology professionals interested in implementing Oracle Applications in the workplace. Discusses critical management and implementation considerations for successful users of the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Applications, and provides details for the suite of financial, manufacturing, distribution, and HRMS applications. Gives tips on system administration, multi-org and workflow software, and vendors of other compatible software packages, and discusses the Oracle employment and consulting markets. |
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VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages
By: Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha (Editor) Paperback - 633 pages (October 1998) O'Reilly & Associates VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages documents the latest version of the world's bestselling rapid application development environment. Paul Lomax's explanation of the language comes in two main parts. First, Lomax explains the structure and syntax of Visual Basic (VB) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programs. He details all the important stuff, including how to work with variables, how to create custom functions, how to create classes, how to handle errors, and how to react to user events. If you're up to speed on general programming concepts and just want to know how to get something done in VB/VBA, you'll find this part of the book especially handy. The second, and largest, part of the book is a language reference in the classic O'Reilly style. Every function, statement, keyword, and miscellaneous bit of code has a clear, complete entry. Each entry includes a statement of syntax, a description of the function's purpose, a quick example of its use, and some tips for usin g it successfully. |
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Visual Basic Controls in a Nutshell: The Controls of the Professional and Enterprise Editions
By: Evan S. Dictor Paperback - 762 pages 1 Ed edition (July 1999) O'Reilly & Associates Visual Basic has been described as a visual interface design package to which the programmer attaches snippets of code. Although this definition has been contested by some, no one would contest that Visual Basic's interface design component -- and therefore its forms and controls -- are central to Visual Basic. To create a professional application, the developer needs extensive knowledge of Visual Basic controls, and of their numerous properties, events, and methods. Visual Basic Controls in a Nutshell is the book that documents Visual Basic controls thoroughly. This quick-reference guide covers one of the crucial elements of Visual Basic--its controls and their numerous properties, events, and methods. It probes extensively into the forms, modules, and classes of Visual Basic programming features and contains a detailed summary of intrinsic and custom controls with an overview of major characteristics of each. |
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Web Development With Oracle Portal
By: Mohamed El-Mallah Paperback - 800 pages Book/CD-ROM edition (October 12, 2001) Prentice Hall This is the first complete guide to building Web applications with Oracle Portal 3.0 for Windows NT/2000 and Linux. Oracle Portal specialist Mohamed El-Mallah covers the entire development lifecycle, from product installation through configuration, capacity planning, development, integration, deployment, and administration. Through a start-to-finish case study, El-Mallah introduces every key concept and technique Oracle Web developers and Oracle9i Application Server administrators need to master. Complete lifecycle coverage: planning, development, deployment, and administration. Installation, tuning, and troubleshooting O9iAS/Portal on Windows and Unix. Building Portlets, PL/SQL and Java providers, even advanced PDK programming. Integrating Forms, Reports, interMedia Text, LDAP OiD, Dynamic Services, and supporting SSL in Oracle9iAS Portal. Includes the complete export of the demo application and the source code on CD-ROM. The book demo application is live on the Web. |
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Windows 2000 Scripting Bible
By: William Robert Stanek Paperback - 667 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Hungry Minds, Inc Windows scripting gives you the power to automate most routine network tasks. This comprehensive guide shows you how to harness today's cutting-edge scripting techniques -- and double, triple, even quadruple your productivity as an administrator. From Windows Scripting Host fundamentals to nuts-and-bolts advice on scripts for user account configuration, data retrieval, system analysis, and more, master scripter William R. Stanek shows you step-by-step how to become a Windows scripting pro. |
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Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book
By: Jesse M. Torres Paperback - 400 pages Book edition (December 7, 2000) The Coriolis Group This concise book takes the reader through the very basics of scripting all the way up to advanced topics such as Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) and Windows Managment Instrumentation (WMI). Teaches the Windows administrator to quickly write complex scripts without requiring any expertise in programming. Explains commands and keywords, using Shell Scripting, KiXtart, and Windows Script Host (WSH) as the example scripting tools, while providing examples to illustrate functions. Illustrates how to use scripting to perform user and group management, backups and scheduling, and make key security and registry changes for today's most popular programs(such as MSIE, Office, and anti-virus programs). |
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Windows NT Scripting Administrator's Guide
By: William R. Stane, William Robert Stanek Paperback - 400 pages (October 1999) Hungry Minds, Inc The new Windows Scripting Host finally offers system and networks administrators a powerful means to automate many of their most common tasks. In this concise professional reference, expert author William Stanek introduces readers to this new feature and shows them how to put it to work with the VBScript or JScript scripting languages. In addition, Stanek thoroughly explains how to use the older Windows NT shell command language to automate tasks not yet possible with WSH. Parts 1 and 2 of the book introduce the reader to traditional batch scripting and the new Windows Scripting Host, a feature now found on Windows 98, Windows NT 4 Workstation and Windows NT Server 4. The book also introduces the reader to the two most-widely-used scripting languages on Windows platforms, VBScript and JScript, and shows how other popular languages, such as Perl, could be substituted. The remaining parts of the book show how to create scripts of increasing sophistication to solve common administrative problems on Windows 98 and Windows NT 4 Workstation clients, Windows NT 4 servers and networks of NT hosts. |
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Windows NT Shell Scripting
By: Tim Hill Textbook Binding - 400 pages (April 17, 1998) Macmillan Technical Publishing The command line isn't dead--far from it. Administrators of big Windows NT networks know that the best way to accomplish a difficult task frequently involves using the console interface rather than the graphical user interface. By writing batch routines, it's relatively easy to perform fancy tasks on local computers and distant ones. In Windows NT Shell Scripting, Tim Hill has done a service by explaining how to write and use scripts under Windows NT. He begins at the beginning, explaining what scripting is and how command lines come to exist under Windows NT. The reader gets full information on virtual DOS machines and how programs started by scripts are instantiated. There's also some useful information on redirecting script output--handy when using batch files to create HTML documents, for example. |
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Windows NT/2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration
By: Thomas Eck Textbook Binding - 719 pages 1 edition (March 16, 2000) New Riders Publishing Microsoft Windows scripting support has taken off recently, and Thomas Eck has done a lot of useful work at the cutting edge of this technology. In Windows NT/2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration, he documents the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) as they apply to systems administrators interested in using Component Object Model (COM) objects written in Visual Basic to automate administrative tasks. Because this book is backed by such a considerable development effort, administrators of large Windows NT and Windows 2000 networks will be able to put its ADSI solutions to profitable use immediately. Though he does provide a conceptual introduction to ADSI and the services implemented in Active Directory, Eck's book is all about code. Code listings appear in quantity. It's one recipe after another, collectively covering hundreds of administration tasks, with minimal commentary on each solution. After all, this is a book for system administrators, and the idea is that they're not so much reading to become programmers as to see the assortment of tools they can use to solve problems. |
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Windows Scripting Secrets
By: Tobias Weltner Paperback - 751 pages (May 2000) Hungry Minds, Inc Windows scripting can automate almost any system task, enhance system and software functionality, and streamline network administration -- if you know what you're doing. Offering the most comprehensive Windows scripting coverage anywhere plus hundreds of ready-to-run scripting solutions on CD-ROM, this unique guide reveals the little-known scripting secrets that will take your productivity to a new level. |