Database Management

Oracle8 on Windows NT

Name: Oracle8 on Windows NT
Author: Lilian Hobbs
ISBN: 9781555581909

by Lilian Hobbs

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Overview

Oracle Databases on Windows NT is aimed at anyone who needs an appreciation of the facilities available from the Oracle Server on the Windows NT platform. It specifically focuses on how to use the GUI interface, Oracle Enterprise Manager, to create, design and manage an Oracle database on NT. However, this book is appropriate for anyone who using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

By reading this book the reader will learn how to create a database and define all the components such as tables and indexes. It shows how to manage the database, tune it, and use it for Web-based applications. Other advanced features such as replication, distribution, and NT clusters are also covered.

What is GUI? GUI stands for Graphical User Interface, which is what Windows is based on -- icons, pulldown menus, point and click functionality. Most Oracle databases are run on UNIX, which depends on code, and doesn't have the windows interface.

Specifically written for the Windows NT database user Shows how to manage Oracle databases using the GUI interface Foreword by Dr. Jerry Held, Senior Vice President for Oracle Server Technologies

Audience: TCDatabase administrators and users who are using Oracle databases on Windows NT.

About the Author, Lilian Hobbs

Lilian Hobbs is a member of the Oracle Corporation New England Development Centre living in the UK. During the day she works on Oracle databases, but when she isn't writing books, Lilian is a keen astronomer and mountain bike rider. To find out more about this author you can visit her Web site at home.clara.net/lmhobbs. Lilian is the author of the following Made Simple books: Designing Internet Home Pages; Windows NT. Also, she is the author of the following Digital Press Books: RdB: A Comprehensive Guide; Digital's CDD/Repository (with Ken England); Oracle8i Data Warehousing.

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Targeted at experienced Windows NT administrators and database administrators familiar with Oracle, this text introduces Oracle as implemented on Windows NT, describing the important features of Oracle8 and reviewing essential administrator roles such as creating and configuring a database, managing security, and performing backup and recovery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.