作者：Norbert Debes
出版日期：June 1, 2009
出版社：Apress
页数：450
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1430219521 ISBN-13: 978-1430219521
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Secrets of the Oracle Database is the definitive guide toundocumented and partially documented features of the Oracle databaseserver. Covering useful but little–known features from Oracle9i Database through Oracle Database 11g, this book will improve your efficiency as an Oracle database administrator or developer. Norbert Debesshines the light of day on features that help you master more difficultadministrative, tuning, and troubleshooting tasks than you ever thoughtpossible.Finally, in one place, you have at your fingertips knowledge thatpreviously had to be acquired through years of experience and word ofmouth through knowing the right people. What Norbert writes isaccurate, well–tested, well–illustrated by clear examples, and sure toimprove your ability to make an impact in your day–to–day work withOracle.
What you’ll learnTake advantage of Oracle’s built–in Perl DBI distribution to writeapplications for monitoring, benchmarking, data extraction, and more.Interpret the undocumented, extended trace file format to pinpointperformance problems that TKPROF reports overlook and obscure.Get the most out of Statspack by using undocumented reportformatting options, accessing its scarcely–documented repository, andintegrating with SQL Trace.Take control of your instance through the ill–documented ORADEBUGcommand, enabling you to control processes, trace SQL statements, dumpprocess state, monitor wait events and the call stack, and much more.Leverage undocumented features in Oracle’s built–in scheduler to better automate your workload.Take full advantage of Transparent Application Failover and Cluster Database Services in a Real Application Cluster environment.Who is this book for?Secrets of the Oracle Database is written for databaseadministrators and developers well past the beginner level who desireto take full advantage of the power the Oracle platform has to offer.The book is by no means an introductory book. Readers should already befamiliar and comfortable with SQL and PL/SQL, and should have a goodgrounding in Oracle database architecture.
About the Author
Norbert Debes has more than 13 years experience as an Oracle databaseadministrator. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from theUniversity of Erlangen, Germany, and is an Oracle8, Oracle8i, andOracle9i certified professional Oracle database administrator. For over6 years, he held different positions and technical roles at OracleGermany. He was a team leader in Oracle Support Services, and atechnical account manager in Strategic Alliances. In his last role atOracle, Norbert was responsible for promoting Real Application Clusterson a technical level. During his tenure, he contributed to the Oracle9iSQL Reference, the Real Application Clusters manual set, and to variousReal Application Clusters training materials.
Right from the beginning of his quest in the Oracle databasemanagement system, Norbert always wanted to know exactly how thingsworked. He would not be satisfied with superficial explanations, butdemanded evidence. His passion to dig deeper served him well inacquiring extensive knowledge of the Oracle database, and occasionallymakes him a restless researcher who often ends up working from duskuntil dawn when captured by “the flow.”
In his spare time, Norbert likes to hike, snowboard, playbasketball, and read nonfiction on topics such as the emotional brain.Furthermore, he is a passionate analog and digital photographer. Havingbeen intrigued by the vibrancy of stereoscopic (i.e.,three-dimensional) capture for 20 years, he rejoices in his recentacquisition of a stereo camera.