Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook

This authorized guide from Oracle Press explains how to administer Oracle9i on all of the major UNIX platforms, including Solaris, HP-UNIX and IBM-UNIX, and Linux. Inside, you'll find proven techniques and UNIX scripts that can be used to perform dozens of UNIX-related tasks.

Run Oracle9i on the UNIX Platform

Officially authorized by Oracle Corporation, this in-depth resource explains how to deploy and manage Oracle9i on all of the major UNIX platforms, including Solaris, HP-UNIX, IBM-AIX UNIX, and Linux. You'll learn to configure, administer, monitor, and tune Oracle9i in the UNIX environment using a proven set of commands, tools, and techniques. Plus, you'll get ready-to-use UNIX scripts that you can use to perform dozens of administrative tasks.

• Manage and tune the Oracle UNIX server with UNIX commands
• Capture UNIX server statistics with Oracle9i STATSPACK
• Handle UNIX disk management and reduce I/O
• Write powerful UNIX scripts to interact with Oracle9i
• Examine the interaction between Oracle and the UNIX OS
• Monitor UNIX dedicated and multi-threaded server connections to Oracle
• Take advantage of the Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) for file management
• Create automated UNIX scripts to monitor Oracle files
• Encapsulate Oracle DBA tasks into UNIX shell scripts

Don Burleson (Kittrell, NC) has 20 years of experience as a database administrator and has written 9 books on database management including Oracle SAP Administration (O’Reilly), High-Performance Oracle8 Tuning, High-Performance Oracle Data Warehousing, High-Performance Oracle Database Applications (Coriolis) and Oracle8 Tuning, German Edition (Sybex). Don has taught more than 100 University courses and regularly conducts in-house Oracle training.