Oracle Database 11g : New Features for DBAs and Developers

Oracle Database 11g : New Features for DBAs and Developers is a comprehensive, example–laden review of the most significant new features and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation’s flagship database product.

• Learn what’s new in Oracle that really counts
• See actual examples and test run output
• Make sound decisions on new feature adoption

Sift the gold from the silt and discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle’s flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years of database administration experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are combined with sound, step–by–step testing and a heart–felt emphasis on what matters in the real–world to help you get the most out of Oracle Database 11g.

What you’ll learn

• Which new features really can make your day–to–day work easier
• How to automate more of yourdatabase administrationwork than ever before

Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers is for developers, database administrators, project managers, consultants, and other technically minded users of the Oracle database. The book will be of use to any professional in the field who wants to quickly review the features offered by the Oracle Database 11g release.

Oracle Database 11g: New Features gives readers the lowdown on the most important new features in the latest release of Oracle's flagship database product. Authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are experienced database administrators who go beyond regurgitating Oracle's new feature documentation to report on “what's new that really matters.” Readers whose careers are bound up in Oracle's database system need to know what's new. Sam and Charles deliver with a rigor and candor that will help readers choose the best of the new features to apply in their own environments.

Sam R. Alapati is an experienced Oracle database administrator who holds the Oracle OCP DBA and the Hewlett–Packard UNIX System Administrator certifications. He currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Los Colinas, Texas. Alapati has been dealing with databases for a long time, including the Ingres RDBMS in the mid 1980s. He is also well versed in the Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and IBM DB2 database management systems.

Director of Database Technologies at Novara Solutions, Inc. Charles is the author of the 107+ page Maximum Availability Architecure case study at Oracle's Website (http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/FNF_CaseStudy.html), and is an Oracle Certified DBA, Redhat Certified Technician, and Microsoft Certified Professional. He has over 16 years of IT experience and has worked with Oracle since 1991. Charles is also a technical editor for Oracle Press. Charles has presented advanced topics for IOUG and Oracle OpenWorld on such topics as RAC/ASM and 7x24 High Availability Considerations using Oracle Advanced Replication, Hot Standby and Quest Shareplex. Charles also runs the dbaexpert.com website (http://www.dbaexpert.com) and provides technical solutions to Oracle DBAs and developers.