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Overview
As open systems continue to replace traditional mainframe systems, system scalability is becoming an increasingly important topic. Although far more flexible than mainframe systems, open systems applications tend to be less reliable and more difficult to scale. There is no cookbook approach to solving this challenge: A thorough understanding of the technologies involved is essential for designing scalable solutions that meet long-term business needs.
Scaling Oracle8i™ offers valuable insights and techniques for designing reliable and scalable online transaction processing (OLTP) applications using Oracle. This book focuses on providing the in-depth information about Oracle and the underlying hardware required to build systems that scale effectively.
You will find coverage of relevant hardware and I/O operation; benchmark and database monitoring systems; Oracle internals, operation, and implementation; and UNIX operating system issues that impact Oracle performance and scalability. Essential topics covered include:
- Critical scalability concepts, including latches and locks, lists, hashing, and caching
- A briefing on various hardware architectures, including symmetric multiprocessor, clustered SMP, ccNUMA, and massive parallel processors
- I/O technology, including the physical attributes of I/O systems and RAID technology
- Producing application benchmarks using Oracle trace files
- An introduction to the Tcl-based Oracle scripting tool dbaman, for easy, general purpose database programming
- Interrogating the Oracle fixed tables to derive operational data
- Oracle Parallel Server
- The inner workings of the UNIX kernel and virtual memory system
- Oracle's Virtual Operating System abstraction interface, including hardware vendor co-engineering
- Writing scalable SQL
- Using TP monitors
- Performance tuning
- Scaling large Oracle applications
In addition, a real-life case study of a large-scale Oracle system illustrates concepts, approaches, and experienced-based pointers for implementation. Scaling Oracle8i™ concludes with a look at Oracle's future, including its role in the emerging field of Internet OLTP development.
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Synopsis
As open systems continue to replace traditional mainframe systems, system scalability is becoming an increasingly important topic. Although far more flexible than mainframe systems, open systems applications tend to be less reliable and more difficult to scale. There is no cookbook approach to solving this challenge: A thorough understanding of the technologies involved is essential for designing scalable solutions that meet long-term business needs.
Scaling Oracle8i™ offers valuable insights and techniques for designing reliable and scalable online transaction processing (OLTP) applications using Oracle. This book focuses on providing the in-depth information about Oracle and the underlying hardware required to build systems that scale effectively.
You will find coverage of relevant hardware and I/O operation; benchmark and database monitoring systems; Oracle internals, operation, and implementation; and UNIX operating system issues that impact Oracle performance and scalability. Essential topics covered include:
- Critical scalability concepts, including latches and locks, lists, hashing, and caching
- A briefing on various hardware architectures, including symmetric multiprocessor, clustered SMP, ccNUMA, and massive parallel processors
- I/O technology, including the physical attributes of I/O systems and RAID technology
- Producing application benchmarks using Oracle trace files
- An introduction to the Tcl-based Oracle scripting tool dbaman, for easy, general purpose database programming
- Interrogating the Oracle fixed tables to derive operational data
- Oracle Parallel Server
- The inner workings of the UNIX kernel and virtual memory system
- Oracle's Virtual Operating System abstraction interface, including hardware vendor co-engineering
- Writing scalable SQL
- Using TP monitors
- Performance tuning
- Scaling large Oracle applications
In addition, a real-life case study of a large-scale Oracle system illustrates concepts, approaches, and experienced-based pointers for implementation. Scaling Oracle8i™ concludes with a look at Oracle's future, including its role in the emerging field of Internet OLTP development.
Booknews
As open systems continue to replace traditional mainframe systems, system scalability is becoming an increasingly important topic. This guide offers techniques for designing reliable and scalable online transaction processing (OLTP) applications using Oracle. It covers hardware and I/O operation; benchmark and database monitoring systems; Oracle internals, operation, and implementation; and UNIX operating system issues that impact Oracle performance and scalability. The CD-ROM contains source code for dbaman, code examples, and public domain software. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWith e-commerce, e-business, and plain old "non-e" enterprise applications, databases have roared past the terabyte size barrier. Are petabytes far behind? Scalability is king, and if you run Oracle, you need to know every trick in the book to maximize it. Every trick in this<D> book: Scaling Oracle 8i: Building Highly Scalable Oltp System Architectures.
James Morle, a senior database engineer who specializes in super-sized databases, covers every issue associated with scaling Oracle on UNIX — hardware, database design, development, testing, custom benchmarking, deployment, administration, and lots more.
You'll find detailed coverage of caching, hardware options such as Massively Parallel Processing and ccNUMA; and storage systems. You'll walk through optimizing Oracle itself, from the INIT.ORA file through database objects, shadow processes, shared pools, and the special issues associated with Oracle Parallel Server. There's also a full section on tuning UNIX to work with Oracle more effectively. You'll even learn how to "optimize" the human side, with team building and management techniques designed for enterprise-class Oracle systems.
The book includes a detailed case study covering one of the largest OLTP systems ever created. Morle walks you through the entire deployment process, from design and sizing through rollout, tuning, and beyond. There's nothing academic about the techniques, tradeoffs, and processes he offers. He's made them work — personally.
—(Bill Camarda, bn.com editor)