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This book provides a powerful set of tools for Oracle database administrators and developers. During their many years of administering, tuning, and troubleshooting Oracle databases, the authors have developed hundreds of useful scripts. Now you can instantly take advantage of their experience by putting these scripts to work at your own site. DBAs and developers are constantly reinventing the wheel. Most Oracle sites have similar requirements, problems, and crises, and at most of these sites DBAs and developers find themselves reinventing the wheel by writing the same kinds of scripts -- and too often they\`re writing them under pressure, in hit-or-miss and error-prone fashion.
The scripts in this book are tried-and-true. They\`ve been thoroughly tested in many different environments. You can use them right now to simplify the tasks you perform each day -- monitoring databases for reliability, protecting your database against data loss, improving performance, increasing security, and building reports that provide insight into the inner workings of Oracle databases. You can also turn to these scripts in emergencies to diagnose system problems and repair databases when the pressure is on.
The book includes:Scripts for DBAs -- The ways that DBAs structure files, allocate disk space, tune systems, and enforce security have an enormous impact on how efficiently and effectively systems will operate. The scripts in this category analyze performance, check database reliability, produce security and auditing reports, perform backups and restores, and work with the Oracle Applications.
Scripts for developers and designers -- These scripts help to create, analyze, report, and reverse-engineer the objects in the database. They also allow developers to easily create EXPLAIN PLAN reports on SQL statements, and they provide a front end to RCS (the Revision Control System).
Utility scripts -- These scripts perform a variety of operating system, file, directory, and memory operations (aimed particularly at UNIX sites). You can customize these scripts for your own operating system. The accompanying CD-ROM provides a comprehensive resource for DBAs and developers. It contains complete source code for all of the scripts described in this book, as well as additional software that you will find helpful in monitoring and improving the performance of your databases.A brief table of contents follows:
Part I: Overview IntroductionPart II: Scripts for DBAs Database Control Utilities
Database Performance and Trend Analysis Utilities
Database Reliability Monitoring Utilities
Database Security Reports and Utilities
Database Backup Utilities
Oracle Applications Utilities Part III. Scripts for Developers and Designers Database-Design/DDL Utilities
Database Developer Utilities IV: UNIX Utility ScriptsGeneral System Utilities
Directory and File Management Utilities
Memory Usage ReportsPart V. Appendixes
A. SQL Scripts That Create Oracle Tables
B. Tables Created by SQL Scripts
C. SQL Scripts That Create Output Files
D. Output Files Created by SQL Scripts
About the Author
Brian Lomasky is a senior principal consultant with Oracle Corporation Consulting Services. He specializes in Oracle database and UNIX/OpenVMS/WinNT operating system tuning, troubleshooting, configuration, backup and recovery, and database auditing. When he isn\`t busy creating new scripts to solve day-to-day problems for DBAs, he has been a featured speaker at the national IOUG-A and Oracle OpenWorld conferences, as well as at local user groups.
David Kreines is the Manager of Database Services for Rhodia, Inc., and author of Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference (O\`Reilly Media, Inc., 2000) and coauthor of Oracle in a Nutshell (with Rick Greenwald) (O\`Reilly Media, Inc., 2002), Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Reference (with Brian Laskey) (O\`Reilly Media, Inc., 1999) and Oracle Scripts (with Brian Lomasky) (O\`Reilly Media, Inc., 1998). Dave has worked with Oracle as a developer and database administrator since 1985, on a wide variety of platforms, from PCs to mainframes. He is an Oracle Certified Professional, is certified as a DBA, and has been a frequent contributor to Oracle conferences, user groups, and publications, both in the United States and in Europe. Dave served two terms as president of the International Oracle Users Group -Americas (IOUG-A), and spent ten years on the board of directors. ISBN : 9788173660290
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