Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table

Description

Announcing a new book from Apress and the OakTable Network:

Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table presents 11 world-renowned industry specialists proffering their own highly experienced views, input, and insights on Oracle - where it's been, where it's going, how (and how not) to use it successfully, the software and techniques that theyve introduced to help people achieve their goals, and some frightening tales of what can happen when fundamental design principles are ignored.

The collaborating authors have solved many of the worst Oracle performance problems in the world, and they've each saved at least one doomed flagship project. Over many years, they've been sharing their unique knowledge with each other at conferences, around the OakTable, and in coffee shops, restaurants, and bars on five continents. Now they want to share their key insights with you.

A major focus of this book concerns the ways in which you can avoid common and debilitating mistakes when building Oracle software projects. From these stories, you'll learn the simple steps that will help you avoid real pain on your next (or current) Oracle project.

CONTENTS:

SECTION I -- INTRODUCTION

 
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SECTION I -- INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: A Brief
History of Oracle -- Dave Ensor

Chapter 2: Oracle and the
OakTable ? Mogens Nrgaard

SECTION II ? PERFORMANCE
AND TESTING

Chapter 3: You Probably
Don't Tune Right ? Mogens Nrgaard and Anjo Kolk

Chapter 4: Waste not,
Want Not ? Connor McDonald

Chapter 5: Why I Invented
YAPP ? Anjo Kolk

Chapter 6: Extended Trace
Data ? Cary Millsap

Chapter 7: Direct Memory
Access ? Kyle Hailey

Chapter 8: Compulsive
Tuning Disorder ? Gaja Vaidyanatha

Chapter 9: Testing and
Risk Management ? David Ruthven

SECTION III ?
ARCHITECTURE AND SCALABILITY

Chapter 10: Hardcore
Parallel Server ? James Morle

Chapter 11: The RAC
Revolution ? James Morle

Chapter 12: Join The
BAARF Party (or not) -- Mogens Nrgaard and James Morle

SECTION IV ? DON'T TRY
THIS AT HOME?

Chapter 13: Dreadful
Design ? Jonathon Lewis

Chapter 14: Bad CaRMa --
Tim Gorman

Chapter 15: Blackbox Mayhem
-- Tom Kyte