Expert Oracle Database Architecture, 3rd Edition

Now in its third edition, this best-selling book continues to bring you some of the best thinking on how to apply Oracle Database to produce scalable applications that perform well and deliver correct results. Tom Kyte and Darl Kuhn share a simple philosophy: “you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it, or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment.” If you choose the latter, then you’ll find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly.

This fully revised third edition covers the developments up to Oracle Database 12c. Significant new content is included surrounding Oracle’s new cloud feature set, and especially the use of pluggable databases. Each feature is taught in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing what it is, but also how it works, how to implement software using it, and the common pitfalls associated with it.

Don’t treat Oracle Database as a black-box. Get this book. Get under the hood. Turbo-charge your career.

• Revised to cover Oracle Database 12c
• Proof-by-example approach: Let the evidence be your guide
• Dives deeply into Oracle Database’s most powerful features

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Developing Successful Oracle Applications
Chapter 2: Architecture Overview
Chapter 3: Files
Chapter 4: Memory Structures
Chapter 5: Oracle Processes
Chapter 6: Locking and Latching
Chapter 7: Concurrency and Multiversioning
Chapter 8: Transactions
Chapter 9: Redo and Undo
Chapter 10: Database Tables
Chapter 11: Indexes
Chapter 12: Datatypes
Chapter 13: Partitioning
Chapter 14: Parallel Execution
Chapter 15: Data Loading and Unloading