Secrets of the Oracle Database is the definitive guide to undocumented and partially-documented features of the Oracle Database server. Covering useful but little-known features from Oracle Database 9 through Oracle Database 11, this book will improve your efficiency as an Oracle database administrator or developer. Norbert Debes shines the light of day on features that help you master more difficult administrative, tuning, and troubleshooting tasks than you ever thought possible. Finally, in one place, you have at your fingertips knowledge that previously had to be acquired through years of experience and word of mouth through knowing the right people. What Norbert writes is accurate, well-tested, well-illustrated by clear examples, and sure to improve your ability to make an impact on your day-to-day work with Oracle.

Backup and recovery are mission-critical DBA tasks, and it is critical that every Oracle professional develop a RMAN strategy that guarantees recoverability while minimizing unplanned downtime. RMAN is one of the world's most sophisticated backup and recovery tools. It is robust and complex with thousands of options. This landmark book demonstrates, by example, how to create a successful backup and recovery infrastructure using RMAN. This book also contains links to RMAN video tutorials and a download of working RMAN scripts to guide users through full automation of a backup strategy. Together, backup and recovery are the single most important combined DBA activity, and it is crucial that you master the RMAN and Data Pump Import utilities to protect against catastrophic data loss. Written by practicing Oracle DBAs with years of RMAN experience, this is a pragmatic approach to RMAN, focusing less on theory and more on real-world, practical RMAN tools, tips and techniques. This Oracle backup and recovery book is unique because it provides real-world examples on how to use RMAN and other tools to protect your mission critical data. Even with reliable mirrored disks, your important Oracle database is still at-risk from from software corruption, user error and hardware failures. This book details Oracle RMAN best practices and shows the best ways to minimize backup and recovery time, which is critical for maximizing system availability This is the definitive RMAN reference that guides you, step-by-step, through all of the techniques for Oracle backup and recovery, from simple cold backups to complex incremental backups. Experienced RMAN experts guide you through the installation, setup and configuration for a complete RMAN backup and recovery infrastructure using proven techniques and Oracle best practices. Best of all, you be given the opportunity to learn from supplemental video tutorials and working examples how to recover from every possible data scenario. This book has step-by-step checklists that you can follow to guide you through a complex recovery with minimal unplanned system outages. This is an indispensible RMAN reference for every professional DBA who needs to ensure that they understand every possible backup and recovery strategy. It also contains a download of working RMAN scripts to help you easily automate and monitor your RMAN backups.

Targeted at Oracle professionals who need fast and accurate working examples of complex issues, Oracle In-focus books target specific areas of Oracle technology in a concise manner. Plenty of working code is provided without a lot of theory, allowing database managers to solve their problems quickly without reviewing data that they already know. All code scripts are available for instant download from a companion web site.

Provides information on advanced Oracle SQL techniques for creating complex queries and extracting and summarizing data from large tables.

Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers by Jonathan Lewis provides just the essential information about Oracle Database internals that every database administrator needs for troubleshooting—no more, no less. Oracle Database seems complex on the surface. However, its extensive feature set is really built upon upon a core infrastructure resulting from sound architectural decisions made very early on that have stood the test of time. This core infrastructure manages transactions and the ability to commit and roll back changes, protects the integrity of the database, enables backup and recovery, and allows for scalability to thousands of users all accessing the same data. Most performance, backup, and recovery problems that database administrators face on a daily basis can easily be identified through understanding the essential core of Oracle Database architecture that Lewis describes in this book. Provides proven content from a world-renowned performance and troubleshooting expert Emphasizes the significance of internals knowledge to rapid identification of database performance problems Covers the core essentials and does not waste your time with esoterica

Achieve 24x7 database uptime and expand your Oracle knowledge using the hundreds of tips and techniques provided in this unique reference.

Secret ORACLE is the definitive guide to undocumented and partially documented features of the ORACLE database server. This book will improve your efficiency as an ORACLE database administrator and enable you to master more difficult administrative, tuning, and troubleshooting tasks than you ever thought possible. Topics covered include: The MERITS performance optimization method, which extends the state-of-the-art wait event tuning paradigm. Controlling processes of an ORACLE instance with the fragmentarily documented ORADEBUG command to trace SQL statements as well as wait events and dump process state, call stack, and hang analysis information. Tracing the cost based optimizer to understand its cost calculations and decisions. Understanding hidden parameters that govern Automatic PGA Memory Management. Leveraging undocumented features of the Oracle10g/11g scheduler and other partially or fully undocumented PL/SQL packages, such as DBMS_SYSTEM, DBMS_SUPPORT, and DBMS_UTILITY.

Based on Oracle8i, release 8.1, this concise book contains detailed, hard-to-find information about Oracle internals (data structures, algorithms, hidden parameters, and undocumented system statistics). Main topics include waits, latches, locks (including instance locks used in parallel server environments) and memory use and management.

This is the only practical, hands-on guide available to database administrators to secure their Oracle databases. This book will help the DBA to assess their current level of risk as well as their existing security posture. It will then provide practical, applicable knowledge to appropriately secure the Oracle database. - The only practical, hands-on guide for securing your Oracle database published by independent experts. - Your Oracle database does not exist in a vacuum, so this book shows you how to securely integrate your database into your enterprise.

The authors have revised and updated this bestseller to include both the Oracle8i and new Oracle9i Internet-savvy database products.