Free Trial

Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.

Help

Databases


21. 

Oracle Database 10g: A Beginner’s Guide

Oracle Database 10g: A Beginner’s Guide

By: Ian Abramson; Michael Abbey; Ian Corey

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 31-MAR-2004

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Provides beginning DBAs and developers with a solid foundation in the database administration and programming basics needed to embark on an Oracle career. The focus is on Oracle Database 10g, but you’ll get the fundamentals applicable to all Oracle database releases. ...

22. 

Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning

Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning

By: Richmond Shee; Kirtikumar Deshpande; K Gopalakrishnan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 25-JUN-2004

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially. ...

23. 

Oracle Exalytics Revealed

Oracle Exalytics Revealed

By: Mark Rittman

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 10-SEP-2012

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

An in-depth Oracle Press guide to Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine.Written by Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, this e-book offers comprehensive coverage of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the best-in-class, preintegrated BI platform. ...

24. 

Oracle CRM On Demand Combined Analyses

Oracle CRM On Demand Combined Analyses

By: Michael D. Lairson

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2010

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Master the Combined Analysis Tools in Oracle CRM on Demand Drive better decision-making across your enterprise using the reporting and analysis techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Through clear explanations and detailed case studies, Oracle CRM on Demand Combined Analyses shows you how to deliver real-time insightful business intelligence to end users. ...

25. 

Oracle CRM On Demand Dashboards

Oracle CRM On Demand Dashboards

By: Michael D. Lairson

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 10-AUG-2010

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Design and Deliver Oracle CRM On Demand Dashboards Create custom, interactive dashboards to deliver actionable business intelligence directly to end users with help from this Oracle Press guide.Oracle CRM On Demand Dashboards provides comprehensive coverage of the versatile features available in Oracle Answers On Demand coupled with detailed planning and design strategies for building and deploying reports and dashboards with Oracle CRM On Demand. ...

26. 

Oracle Database Administration for Microsoft SQL Server DBAs

Oracle Database Administration for Microsoft SQL Server DBAs

By: Michelle Malcher

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 01-SEP-2010

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Apply Your SQL Server DBA Skills to Oracle Database Administration Use your SQL Server experience to set up and maintain a high-performance Oracle Database environment. Written by a DBA with expertise in both platforms, Oracle Database Administration for Microsoft SQL Server DBAs illustrates each technique with clear explanations, examples, and comparison tables. ...

27. 

Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

By: Andy MacMillan; Brian Huff

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 18-DEC-2008

Insert Date: 17-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Control Intellectual Property, and Avoid Information Overload Glean actionable business information from your “digital landfill” by deploying a flexible, cost-effective content management framework across your entire organization. ...

28. 

Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data

Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data

By: Jean Paul Isson; Jesse Harriott

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 09-OCT-2012

Insert Date: 09-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Plain English guidance for strategic business analytics and big data implementation In today's challenging economy, business analytics and big data have become more and more ubiquitous. While some businesses don't even know where to start, others are struggling to move from beyond basic reporting. In some instances management and executives do not see the value of analytics or have a clear understanding of business analytics vision mandate and benefits. Win with Advanced Analytics focuses on integrating multiple types of intelligence, such as web analytics, customer feedback, competitive...

29. 

Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

By: 

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 15-MAR-2010

Insert Date: 08-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

The authors advocate attention to smart data strategy as an organizing element of enterprise performance optimization. They believe that "smart data" as a corporate priority could revolutionize government or commercial enterprise performance much like "six sigma" or "total quality" as organizing paradigms have done in the past. This revolution has not yet taken place because data historically resides in the province of the information resources organization. Solutions that render data smart are articulated in "technoid" terms versus the language of the board room. While books such as...

30. 

MySQL, Fifth Edition

MySQL, Fifth Edition

By: Paul DuBois

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 02-APR-2013

Insert Date: 02-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

MySQL, Fifth Edition by Paul DuBois The definitive guide to using, programming and administering MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 MySQL provides a comprehensive guide to effectively using and administering the MySQL database management system (DBMS). Author Paul DuBois describes everything from the basics of getting information into a database and formulating queries, to using MySQL with PHP or Perl to generate dynamic web pages, to writing your own programs that access MySQL databases, to administering MySQL servers. The book also includes a comprehensive reference section providing...

31. 

Getting Started with NoSQL

Getting Started with NoSQL

By: Gaurav Vaish ;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 01-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Your guide to the world and technology of NoSQL First hand, detailed information about NoSQL technology Learn the differences between NoSQL and RDBMS and where each is useful Understand the various data models for NoSQL Compare and contrast some of the popular NoSQL databases on the market Think outside the box; learn to design, construct, and implement using NoSQL In Detail Relational databases have been used for decades, and in the last few years NoSQL has been a growing choice for large-scale web applications. Non-relational databases provide the scale and...

32. 

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

By: Andy Penver;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 01-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A practical step-by-step guide to develop end-to-end extensions to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, with detailed illustrations and explanations Gain key skills learning to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Learn how to personalize Oracle Application Framework (OAF) pages and understand the structure of an OA Framework page Set up a JDeveloper with OA Framework extension and configure a development environment Develop OA Framework pages with advanced features such as a simple query page and master detail page In Detail Oracle’s suite of applications is...

33. 

Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

ShortCut

Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

By: Shaun M. Thomas;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 01-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A step-by-step guide to backing up and restoring your database using safe, efficient, and proven recipes Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Back up and restore PostgreSQL databases Use built-in tools to create simple backups Restore the easy way with internal commands Cut backup and restore time with advanced techniques In Detail Backing up a database is something that all system admins must eventually face. Larger warehouses and critical enterprise data requires advanced techniques and tools to handle this...

34. 

Oracle Database & Data Warehouse 11g R2: Performance Assessment

Oracle Database & Data Warehouse 11g R2: Performance Assessment

By: 

Publisher: Sideris Courseware Corp.

Publication Date: 01-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 01-APR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

This textbook is the first volume of a two-volume set devoted to the subject of Oracle database server and Oracle data warehouse performance tuning. This first volume provides crucial background information about database performance statistics, metrics and baselines. An enormous amount of performance data is generated and presented by the self-monitoring Oracle database, but the meaning and usefulness of the data is not always obvious. Common questions are: What exactly should I be looking for in amongst all this data? What is the meaning of the performance statistics presented? What...

35. 

Instant Apache Cassandra for Developers Starter

ShortCut

Instant Apache Cassandra for Developers Starter

By: Vivek Mishra;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 25-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 27-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Start developing with Cassandra and learn how to handle big data Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Tune and optimize Cassandra to handle big data Learn all about the Cassandra Query Language and Cassandra-CLI Practical examples of Cassandra’s Java APIs In Detail Apache Cassandra is an open source, distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data, spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. If you want to...

36. 

Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN

Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN

By: Stelios Charalambides

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 27-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Oracle SQL Tuning with SQLTXPLAIN is a practical guide to SQL tuning the way Oracle's own experts do it, using a freely downloadable tool called SQLTXPLAIN. Using this simple tool you'll learn how to tune even the most complex SQL, and you'll learn to do it quickly, without the huge learning curve usually associated with tuning as a whole. Firmly based in real world problems, this book helps you reclaim system resources and avoid the most common bottleneck in overall performance, badly tuned SQL. You'll learn how the optimizer works, how to take advantage of its latest features, and...

37. 

Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the Oracle Database

By: Marcelle Kratochvil;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 21-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 23-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

A revolutionary approach to understanding, managing and delivering digital objects, assets, and all types of data Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real time examples Get up to speed on all the aspects of this new technology Learn how to work with rich multimedia and control it In Detail Multimedia is the new digital frontier. Managers, software architects, administrators and developers need to fully comprehend this exciting new technology as its widespread use and acceptance cannot be ignored any...

38. 

Managing Data in Motion

Managing Data in Motion

By: April Reeve

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013

Insert Date: 22-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Managing Data in Motion includes the techniques that have been developed for significantly reducing the complexity of managing system interfaces and enabling a scalable data architecture. Author April Reeve brings over two decades of experience to present a vendor-neutral approach that can be understood by IT and business managers as well as programmers and architects.Learn the different techniques, technologies, and best practices used to manage the passing of data between computer systems and integrating disparate data together in an enterprise environment. Presents a...

39. 

PostgreSQL-Administration, 3rd Edition

PostgreSQL-Administration, 3rd Edition

By: Peter Eisentraut; Bernd Helmle

Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag

Publication Date: 21-MAR-2013

Insert Date: 22-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

PostgreSQL hat sich bei professionellen Datenbankadministratoren als hoch performantes und robustes Datenbanksystem durchgesetzt. PostgreSQL ist freie Software, wird seit Ende der 80er Jahre von einer engagierten Community ständig weiterentwickelt und besitzt die Eigenschaften, Zuverlässigkeit und Performance kommerzieller Datenbanksysteme. Die Autoren sind aktive Entwicklungsmitglieder der PostgreSQL Community und geschätzte Datenbankexperten. Die 3. Auflage von PostgreSQL Administration behandelt die im September 2012 erschienene Version 9.2. Die neue Version enthält gerade im Bereich...

40. 

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

By: Clare Churcher

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 27-JUN-2012

Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013

Slots: 1.0

Table of Contents • Start Reading

Beginning Database Design, Second Edition provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you'll learn to discover and represent the details and scope of any design problem you choose to attack. Database design is not an exact science. Many are surprised to find that problems with their databases are caused by poor design rather than by difficulties in...