Effective Oracle by Design

Overview

Tom Kyte of Oracle Magazine’s “Ask Tom” column has written the definitive guide to designing and building high-performance, scalable Oracle applications. The book covers schema design, SQL and PL/SQL, tables and indexes, and much more. From the exclusive publisher of Oracle Press books, this is a must-have resource for all Oracle developers and DBAs.

Table of contents

1: The Right Approach to Building Applications
2: Your Performance Toolkit
3: Architectural Decisions
4: Effective Administration
5: Statement Processing
6: Getting the Most Out of the Cost-Based Optimizer
7: Effective Schema Design
8: Effective SQL
9: Effective PL/SQL Programming
10: So, You Had an Accident

Appendix A: Setting Up and Some Scripts

Biographical note

Thomas Kyte (Leesburg, VA) is among the most knowledgeable Oracle professionals in the world. He is Vice President in the Oracle Government, Education, and Health group and is the “Tom” behind the Ask Tom column in Oracle Magazine and the online forum at http://asktom.oracle.com. He has answered thousands of technical questions that sparked the creation of this book and is the author of Expert One-on-One Oracle (Wrox).

Back cover copy

Streamline Application Development with Help from an Oracle Expert
Oracle guru Tom Kyte has written the definitive guide to designing and building high-performance, scalable Oracle applications. Providing detailed code examples throughout, Tom teaches proactive and efficient methods to develop and tune Oracle applications that fully exploit the database. You'll learn how to maximize the built-in functionality of the tools you're using in order to achieve the best results possible. From the exclusive publisher of Oracle Press books, this is a must-have resource for all Oracle developers and DBAs.

Use SQL*Plus, TKPROF, STATSPACK, JDeveloper, and other tools
Take advantage of Oracle's scalable architectural implementations
Handle administration with SPFILES, Oracle Managed Files, and Automatic Segment Space Management
Use archivelog mode, RMAN, and Data Guard for bulletproof backup and recovery
Improve statement processing by using bind variables and reducing parsing
Make full use of the Cost Based Optimizer (CBO)
Choose data structures that result in effectively designed schemas
Write efficient SQL statements and high-performance PL/SQL code
Learn invaluable techniques from an Oracle insider