OCP Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-050) (Osborne Oracle Press)

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A Fully Integrated Study System for OCP Exam 1Z0-050

Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11g New Features for Administrators exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test, and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCP objectives for exam 1Z0-050, including:

• Installation and upgrades
• Partitioning and storage
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Diagnostics and fault management
• Performance
• Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback
• Security
• Oracle SQL Performance Analyzer
• SQL plan management
• Automatic SQL tuning

On the CD-ROM:

• One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCP exam
• Detailed answers and explanations
• Score report performance assessment tool
• Complete electronic book
• Bonus exam available free with online registration

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Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook

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The Essential Resource for Oracle DBAs--Fully Updated and Expanded. Manage a flexible, highly available Oracle database with help from the expert information contained in this exclusive Oracle Press guide. Fully revised to cover every new feature and utility, Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook shows how to perform a new installation, upgrade from previous versions, configure hardware and software for maximum efficiency, and employ bulletproof security. You will learn to automate the backup and recovery process, provide transparent failover capability, audit and tune performance, and distribute your enterprise databases with Oracle Net. Plan and deploy permanent, temporary, and bigfile tablespaces. Optimize disk allocation, CPU usage, I/O throughput, and SQL queries. Develop powerful database management applications. Guard against human errors using Oracle Flashback and Oracle Automatic Undo Management. Diagnose and tune system performance using Oracle Automatic Workload Repository and SQL Tuning Sets. Implement robust security using authentication, authorization, fine-grained auditing, and fine-grained access control. Maintain high availability using Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Active Data Guard. Respond more efficiently to failure scenarios by leveraging the Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository and the Oracle Repair Advisor. Back up and restore tables, tablespaces, and databases with Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Data Pump Export and Import. Work with networked databases, data warehouses, and VLDBs. Put the latest Oracle Database 11g tools to work--Oracle Total Recall, Oracle Flashback Data Archive, and more.

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Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices

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In this book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, writing, and teaching about PL/SQL into a set of PL/SQL language "best practices"--rules for writing code that is readable, maintainable, and efficient. Too often, developers focus on simply writing programs that run without errors--and ignore the impact of poorly written code upon both system performance and their ability (and their colleagues' ability) to maintain that code over time. Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices is a concise, easy-to-use reference to Feuerstein's recommendations for excellent PL/SQL coding. It answers the kinds of questions PL/SQL developers most frequently ask about their code:

* How should I format my code?
* What naming conventions, if any, should I use?
* How can I write my packages so they can be more easily maintained?
* What is the most efficient way to query information from the database?
* How can I get all the developers on my team to handle errors the same way?

The book contains 120 best practices, divided by topic area. It's full of advice on the program development process, coding style, writing SQL in PL/SQL, data structures, control structures, exception handling, program and package construction, and built-in packages. It also contains a handy, pull-out quick reference card. As a helpful supplement to the text, code examples demonstrating each of the best practices are available on the O'Reilly web site. Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices is intended as a companion to O'Reilly's larger Oracle PL/SQL books. It's a compact, readable reference that you'll turn to again and again--a book that no serious developer can afford to be without.

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Handbook for users of Oracle 8i and SQL, with practical answers to common tough issues dealt with by developers. Summarizes approximately 120 best practices in all and features a pull-out reference card listing all of the best practices featured in the text. Each best practice includes an example that features it in context. Softcover.

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Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals

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Relational databases hold data, right? They indeed do, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology. A far more powerful way of thinking lies in relational technologys foundation in the mathematical disciplines of logic and set theory.



Databases contain truths or propositions describing some area of interest such as a business. Those truths are organized into sets. Operations from logic and set theory can be applied to existing sets of truths to derive new sets of truths. Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals introduces you to this way of thinking, to the logic and set theory that underlies relational database technology. All this may sound abstract now, but there are profound benefits from the deeper understanding youll gain from this book. Youll learn to

* Become a better database designer. Youll make fewer mistakes, and your designs will be more flexible in response to changing data needs.
* Use the expressive power of mathematics to precisely specify designs and business rules.
* Communicate effectively about design using the universal language of mathematics.
* Develop and write complex SQL statements with confidence.
* Avoid pitfalls and problems from common relational bugaboos such as null values and duplicate rows.

The math that you learn in this book will put you above the level of understanding of most database professionals today. Youll better understand the technology and be able to apply it more effectively. Youll avoid data anomalies like redundancy and inconsistency. Understanding whats in this book will take your mastery of relational technology to heights you may not have thought possible.

This book is reviewed and endorsed by C. J. Date and features a foreword by the same.

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McGraw Hill Oracle Database 11g SQL

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Write powerful SQL statements and PL/SQL programs

Learn to access Oracle databases through SQL statements and construct PL/SQL programs with guidance from Oracle expert, Jason Price. Published by Oracle Press, Oracle Database 11g SQL explains how to retrieve and modify database information, use SQL Plus and SQL Developer, work with database objects, write PL/SQL programs, and much more. Inside, you'll find in-depth coverage of the very latest SQL features and tools, performance optimization techniques, advanced queries, Java support, and XML. This book contains everything you need to master SQL.

* Explore SQL Plus and SQL Developer
* Use SQL SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements
* Write PL/SQL programs
* Create tables, sequences, indexes, views, and triggers
* Write advanced queries containing complex analytical functions
* Create database objects and collections to handle abstract data
* Use large objects to handle multimedia files containing music and movies
* Write Java programs to access an Oracle Database using JDBC
* Tune your SQL statements to make them execute faster
* Explore the XML capabilities of the Oracle Database
* Master the very latest Oracle Database 11g features, such as PIVOT and UNPIVOT, flashback archives, and much more

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RMAN Receipes for Oracle Database 11g

It’s sometimes said that the true job of an Oracle database administrator can be summed up in one, essential skill: to be able to recover your database.

There’s much wisdom in that statement. Of all the things you are responsible for as a database administrator, nothing is more important than the data itself. Like it or not, the fearsome responsibility of protecting your organizations most critical data falls squarely upon your shoulders:

* Lose that data and your company could fail.
* Lose that data and you could be out of a job.

Scared? You should be. But theres help. You are not alone. Oracle experts Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda have come together in this book to show you the power of Recovery Manager, or RMAN, which is Oracles backup and recovery tool of choice. RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g helps you take advantage of all that RMAN has to offer by providing easy-to-understand solutions to business-critical backup and recovery operations. This handy guide

* Demystifies the steps required to protect your business data
* Provides ready-made and step-by-step solutions to simple and complex backup, restore, and recovery operations
* Is task-oriented, making it easy for you to find the solution to pressing backup and recovery problems
* Respects your time by providing example-based solutions, not endless reading material

When the pressure’s on, you dont have time for long discussions of theory. This book gets right to the point with quick and easy-to-read, step-by-step solutions that can help you backup and recover your data with confidence.


What you’ll learn

Oracle Database experts Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda show you how to

* Reliably back up and recover your database using Oracles Recovery Manager.
* Utilize New Oracle Database 11g features such as the Data Recovery Advisor.
* Let Oracle Database manage your backup files via the Flash Recovery Area.
* Automate backup and recovery tasks by writing scripts.
* Troubleshoot RMAN problems and optimize RMAN performance.
* Interface with a Media Management Layer to manage your backup tape library.
* Recover from the loss of a control file, loss of an online redo log, and other (hopefully!) unusual situations.

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Oracle Essentials Oracle Database 11g

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Oracle is an enormous system, with myriad technologies, options, and releases. Most users-even experienced developers and database administrators-find it difficult to get a handle on the full scope of the Oracle database. And, as each new Oracle version is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies. The latest challenge is Oracle Database 11g.



This book distills an enormous amount of information about Oracle into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focused text, illustrations, and helpful hints. It contains chapters on:

* Oracle products, options, data structures, and overall architecture for Oracle Database 11g, as well as earlier releases (Oracle Database 10g, Oracle9i, and Oracle8i)


* Installing, running, managing, monitoring, networking, and tuning Oracle, including Enterprise Manager (EM) and Oracle's self-tuning and management capabilities; and using Oracle security, auditing, and compliance (a new chapter in this edition)


* Multiuser concurrency, data warehouses, distributed databases, online transaction processing (OLTP), high availability, and hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, clusters, NUMA, and grid computing)


* Features beyond the Oracle database: Oracle Application Express, Fusion Middleware (including Oracle Application Server), and database SOA support as a Web services provider

The latest Oracle Database 11g features: query result set caching, Automatic Memory Management, the Real Application Testing, Advanced Compression, Total Recall, and Active Data Guard Option Options, changes to the OLAP Option (transparently accessed and managed as materialized views), the Flashback transaction command, transparent data encryption, the Support Workbench (and diagnosability infrastructure), and partitioning enhancements (including interval and new composite types)

For new Oracle users, DBAs, developers, and managers, Oracle Essentials provides an invaluable, all-in-one introduction to the full range of Oracle features and technologies, including the just-released Oracle Database 11g features. But even if you already have a library full of Oracle documentation, you'll find that this compact book is the one you turn to, again and again, as your one-stop, truly essential reference.

"Oracle Essentials gives a clear explanation of the key database concepts and architecture underlying the Oracle database. It's a great reference for anyone doing development or management of Oracle databases."

--Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Database Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation

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Oracle DBA Made Simple Oracle Database Administration Techniques

Oracle DBA Made Simple: Oracle Database Administration Techniques

Written by one the world's top Oracle script developers and author of 14 best-selling Oracle books, Mike Ault targets his substantial knowledge of Oracle tuning in this concise eBook. With decades of experience using Oracle, Mike Ault shares secrets for Oracle database management and DBA techniques.

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Documenting Oracle Databases - Complete Oracle Database Schema Auditing

Written by one the world's top Oracle script developers and author of 14 best-selling Oracle books, Mike Ault targets his substantial knowledge of Oracle tuning in this concise eBook. With decades of experience using Oracle, Mike Ault shares secrets for Oracle database documentation and DBA schema auditing.

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SQL Server 2000 - fast answers for dbas and developers

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SQL Server 2000 is the leading relational database for the Windows platform. It's a full-featured, enterprise-class database server, but its ease of use and maintenance makes it suitable whether youre a junior, part-time, or advanced DBA or developer. SQL Server expert and author Joseph Sack covers all SQL Server 2000 features, so youll be able to rely on this book when youre in the field and need quick, effective solutions.

Included are hundreds of practical recipes that describe and demonstrate the utility of a feature or functionwith the minimum necessary background theory. This quick and effective reference highlights the specifics of every SQL Server command or process. Further, this special signature edition contains a searchable PDF of the book, making it ideal to use as both a desktop reference, and a client-site field guide.


About the Author

Joseph Sack works for Microsoft as a SQL Server Dedicated Support Engineer in the Premier Field Engineering team. For 10+ years, he has been developing and supporting SQL Server environments for clients in financial services, IT consulting, manufacturing, retail and the real estate industry. He is the author of SQL Server 2005 T–SQL Recipes and SQL Server 2000 Fast Answers for DBAs and Developers. He is the co–author of Pro SQL Server 2005 and Beginning SQL Server 2000 DBA: From Novice to Professional.
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Advanced SQL Functions in Oracle 10g

Designed to exploit Oracle 10g's SQL, this book is a comprehensive look at Oracle 10g's analytical functions, MODEL statements, and regular expressions. In addition, the book covers collection/object-oriented structures and introduces new Oracle 10g topics like SQL, XML, and statistical functions.

# Paperback: 350 pages
# Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc. (January 25, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1598220217
# ISBN-13: 978-1598220216

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