Morle James. Scaling Oracle8i

Creative Commons licensed release version 1.0 (2004). — Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000. — 544 p.This is a book about getting the most out of Oracle8i on Unix systems. While many people understand how to administrate Oracle and Unix, far fewer understand the issues and workings of the software and hardware, thus limiting the scalability of the system. This book aims to open up this essential information, enabling the reader to build faster, larger, and more scalable systems than ever before.The purpose of this book is to provide grounding in all the areas required for large systems implementation using Unix and Oracle8i. Some of the information in this text is available elsewhere, scattered throughout a large number of specialized volumes, while other information, taken from experience in implementing such systems, is previously undocumented.
Unlike many Oracle books, this book avoids the "one size fits all," cookbook approach to improving the skillset of the reader. In my opinion, such books do little to improve foundation skills and serve only to confuse readers when their circumstances deviate from those of the author. Rather, the intent of this book is to communicate a distillation of many years of experience in building very large Oracle database systems. The information presented here allows the reader to make informed decisions, based on real facts, that directly apply to the actual case at hand.
Where appropriate, this book will make recommendations to the reader, mostly from an approach standpoint. These recommendations are intended to guide the reader past some of the common pitfalls often encountered during the building of large systems. In addition to technical information, the book also makes organizational and procedural recommendations intended to help the reader avoid dead ends and other sources of aggravation.
Although the focus of this book is on Oracle8i, the principles presented also apply to other database software. Unix is the premier platform for very large Oracle systems and is therefore presented as the underlying operating system, although many of the hardware and theoretical discussions also apply to other operating systems, such as Windows NT. Large, custom-written applications are the main target of this book, but all of the concepts presented here also apply in varying degrees to smaller systems and packaged applications.Who Should Read This BookThis book is primarily aimed at the following audiences.
System architects
Database engineers wanting to expand their knowledge
System administrators working on Unix/Oracle systems
Senior application developers In addition, this book will be of value to the following audiences.
Technology managers
Computer science students