Oracle DBA 101 (Oracle Press Series) Book

All successful database administrators have to begin somewhere and Oracle DBA 101 offers a friendly place for budding Oracle professionals to learn critical database management skills. Surprisingly, the book's entertaining style doesn't keep the authors from teaching even advanced concepts.The text opens with a discussion of everything an Oracle DBA is expected to do. Then the authors move quickly into the particulars of the Oracle architecture, all the while maintaining a comfortable writing style that makes easy reading of material that is, because of its technical nature, very dry. The first portion of the book covers the routine procedures an Oracle DBA must perform to install Oracle and maintain databases.The book also includes excellent discussions of the valuable inner workings of Oracle such as the V$ views and tools such as the Optimizer and Explain Plan. This section, along with a later chapter on performance, provides techniques for diagnosing the causes of even mysterious performance symptoms. A chapter on backup and recovery is included, but it is fairly brief.Oracle is a very complex product and this book doesn't attempt to make a seasoned pro out of the reader. However, it does provide a fine balance of big picture perspective and internal details to enable new DBAs to hit the ground running. --Stephen W Plain, Amazon.comTopics covered: Database layout, installation and configuration, tablespaces, System Global Area, monitoring, DBA & V$ views, SQL*Plus overview, Optimizer, Explain Plan, TKPROF, Autotrace, performance tuning, backup and recovery.Read More