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Written by the world's top authors of best-selling Oracle books, Mike Ault, Daniel Liu and Madhu Tumma target their substantial knowledge of evaluating Oracle new features in this important book.  With decades of experience evaluating new Oracle features, this book focuses on the most important new DBA features of Oracle10g as they relate to database administration and Oracle tuning.
This book provides honest feedback about those Oracle10g features that you should use, and those you should not use.  The text takes an in-depth look at those Oracle10g features that are the most important to system performance and Oracle10g database administration. 
Best of all, the authors have created dozens of working samples in the Oracle10g online code depot. Examples from all areas of Oracle10g are covered with working scripts and code snippets. Your time savings from a single script is worth the price of this great book.

Key Features:

• Receive an online code depot to get you started fast with Oracle10g

• Learn a complete conceptual framework for all areas of Oracle10g new features for DBAs

• Learn about important changes to the Oracle10g SQL optimizer

• Examine the automated SQLAccess Advisor for SQL tuning

• Automate your Oracle10g storage with Automated Storage Management (ASM)

• See how to use the 20 new Oracle10g initialization parameters

• Load your Oracle10g database fast with the new Oracle10g data pump utility

• Understand important enhancements to Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g

About the Authors

Mike Ault is one of the leading names in Oracle technology.  The author of more than 20 Oracle books and hundreds of articles in national publications, Mike Ault has five Oracle Masters Certificates and was the first popular Oracle author with his landmark book "Oracle7 Administration and Management".  Mike also wrote several of the "Exam Cram" books, and enjoys a reputation as a leading author and Oracle consultant. Mike started working with computers in 1979 right out of a stint in the Nuclear Navy. He began working with Oracle in 1990 and has since become a World Renowned Oracle expert. Mike is currently a Senior Technical Management Consultant and has two wonderful daughters.  Mike is kept out of trouble by his wife of 29 years, Susan.

Daniel Liu is a senior Oracle Database Administrator at First American Real Estate Solutions in Anaheim, CA. He has many years of industry experience in database administration and software development.  He has worked with large-scale databases in multi-platform environments.  His expertise includes Oracle database administration, performance tuning, Oracle networking, and Oracle Application Server.
As an Oracle Certified Professional, he taught Oracle certified DBA classes at Elite Consulting Group in Chicago. Daniel also taught IOUG University Seminar in Orlando.  Daniel has published articles with DBAzine, Oracle Internals, and SELECT Journal.  Daniel has received SELECT Editorial Award for Best Article in 2001.  He has also given presentations at IOUG-A Live, LAOUG, OCOUG, NoCOUG, Oracle Open World and Oracle World.   Daniel has served as panelist on Oracles of Oracle at Oracle World and IOUG-Live.  Daniel holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Northern Illinois University.

Madhu Tumma has been working as Software Developer, IT Manager, Database Administrator, and Technical Consultant for about 18 years. He has worked on a wide variety of projects and environments ranging from mainframe, client-server, eBusiness to managed services. He has provided consultancy to variety of clients on database clusters, business continuity and high availability solutions.
His experience ranges across multiple relational database systems. Madhu is frequent speaker at Oracle World and IOUG where he presented many technical papers. Madhu has Master Degree in science and attended Business Management graduate program. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Hema and two children Sandi and Sudeep.

Table of Contents

• Database Resource Manager Overview
• Adaptive Consumer Group Mapping
• Fixed CPU Quota
• Integration of Resource Manager and Profiles

• Buffer Cache Flushing - User Initiated
• Automated Checkpoint Tuning
• CPU Costing
• Dynamic Sampling

• Easy Transaction Recovery Monitoring

• Overview of the changes
• SQL Reporting
• New Performance Overview Charts

• Overview of enhancements
• Changes and updates

• Overview of improvements

• SQL Access Advisor
• Materialized View Tuning API - The new TUNE_MVIEW API

• Overview
• List of Views and Explanation

• Overview
• List of Views

• Benefits
• Examples

• Overview of Improvements in Partitioning
• Global Partitioned Indexes - Hash Partitioning
• Enhancements for Partitioned Index-Organized Tables

• Local Partitioned Indexes Manageability Improvements
• Enhanced Partition Management in Enterprise Manager

• Overview of enhancements
• Database Automated Startup and Shutdown Configuration

• Simplified Database Install

• Uniform Audit Trail
• Extended SQL Support in FGA

• Overview of the improvements
• Automated LogMiner Configuration
• Support for Index-Organized Tables
• Support for Additional Types
• LONG, Multibyte CLOB and NCLOB

• Overview of the Improvements
• Data guard broker support
• CRS (Cluster Ready Services)
• workload management improvements

• Improved Streams RAC Support

• Installtion and configuration

• Improvements to adding a node
• Support for rolling upgrades for one-off patches

• Optimizing the Cache Fusion

• Enhancements to SRVCTL utility
• New Cluster Database Management Tools
• OEM enhancements

• Simplified Zero Data Loss for Data Guard SQL Apply
• Real Time Apply
• Named Data Guard Configurations
• Secured Redo Transmission
• Zero Downtime Instantiation for SQL Apply

• Fine-Grained

• Batch Enqueue/Dequeue

• Downstream Capture Overview
• Creating a Downstream Capture Process

• Enhanced Capture and Apply Performance
• Performance Enhancements for AnyData Queues, Rules, and Propagation

• Easy Rules Engine Transformation Management
• Negative Rules
• Tuning Rules

• for Long and NCLOB datatypes
• for IOT Support

• Set Instantiation SCN at Apply Site
• Clean Up Rules Sets
• Instantiation Through Transportable Tablespaces
• New APIs to Grant Privileges

• Using RMAN

• capture changes from redo log as well as the archived redo log
• automatic transfer of the queue

• Interrow Calculations
• SQLAccess Advisor tool
  • DBMS_ADVISOR package
  • for Indexing
  • for materialized view

• Partitioning Enhancements
  • partitioning for index-organized tables.
  • partitioning materialized views in OLAP
  • Hash-partitioned global indexes.

• ETL Enhancements

• Grouped Table Outer Join
• Size of aggregations in a single SQL statement.
• SQL Inter-row Calculations

• Enhanced Partition-aware Materialized View Refresh
• EXPLAIN PLAN Shows Materialized View Access The
• Enhanced Dimensions
• Nested Materialized View Refresh Materialized
• Enhanced PCT Refresh Partition
• Query Rewrite Uses Multiple Materialized Views

• Parallel AGGREGATE Command
• Parallel SQL IMPORT Command
• PL/SQL Creation of Analytic Workspaces
• Intra-Dimensional (Attribute) Aggregation
• Enhanced Composite Dimensions Indexing
• PL/SQL OLAP Measure Calculation Definition
• Complete Analytical Workspace Management
• Multi-Writer Support
• XML Interface for Analytic Workspace

• DOUBLE and FLOAT Datatypes
• Blast Queries
• Statistical Functions
• Document Clustering
• Document Named Entity Extraction
• Support Vector Machines
• Document Clustering Non-negative Matrix Factorization
• Document Clustering Neural Nets
• Taxonomy Builder

• Attribute Importance Algorithms

• Enhanced Data Preprocessing
• PMML Producers / Consumers
• Data Mining Rapid Application Development
• Multi-User Access Control
• JSR-73 RI & TCK (Java Data Mining)
• Complete Oracle Data Mining Management GUI
• Enhanced Adaptive Bayes Network
• Enhanced Model Seeker

Dec 24, 2004     Kavsek from Boston
Fairly complete coverage
I was on my way to write more or less a negative review of this book, however I changed my mind and now I really think that this book is a *good* reference after all. Why?

First title on Oracle 10g new features that I read was Robert Freeman's book. With modest 200+ pages it's an excellent introductory kind of text and nothing more, it's far from being considered as a reference (or complete) guide to 10g new features.

On the other hand Mr. Ault, Liu and Tumma's book has from the very beginning the ambition to be a true REFERENCE, as complete as possible (they even write some short introduction about new bioinformatics features included in 10g!!). It is amazing how many information they managed to compile and present in detail, especially considering the timing - short beta cycle of 10g and obvious "gold rush" of the publisher (shame on you ;-).

Oct 27, 2004     Rick from Knoxville, TN
Very average, not what I expect from these authors
It is a good introductory into the beta version of 10g. Unfortuneately it appears it was written with the goal of being the first 10g new features on the market sacrificing quality. There are numerous errors. It is probably still worth the purchase as there is a lot of useful information.

Aug 27, 2004     
Must read before planning 10g upgrade
This book is full of useful insight in planning your move 10g, more than worth the price of the book.

Jul 3, 2004     Hank
Ramblings
The book is more ramblings than writings. Information is scattered throughout the book. Disjointed. Numerous errors. Information didn't always match the production release. Needs a competent editor.

Jun 4, 2004     A review from Boston
reprint of beta documents
This book was nothing more then a reprint of the 10g beta e-studies. If you were not in the beta program then this is a good review of the first beta release. However you should note that a lot has changed in what is now the production release.

Mar 31, 2004     A review from Yuma, Az.
A good introduction but beware of errors!
A good introduction to 10g new feature that suffers from apparently having been written using the Beta version of the product. Some of the content does not map to the production version of 10g and some does not work at all. This fact does not make the book unusable, however, and there is a lot of meat to be gotten from it's pages.

Feb 16, 2004     Mladen Gogala (mgogala@adelphia.net) from Connecticut.,USA
Excellent and exhaustive book
This is an excellent and exhaustive review of oracle 10g new features. It contains a great list of new features, together with clear explanations and numerous examples. Being a senior DBA, I find this book to be a great help in my study of 10g. Coming from Mike Ault, a well known author of database management books and a long time DBA himself, I expected nothing short of excellence, and, once again, Mike and his co-authors delivered. Excellent book, a must have for anybody who wants to learn about the oracle latest and the greatest databas

Jan 24, 2004     Sandi Freeman from Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Great Coverage
This is one of the best new features book that I have seen in quite some time. It goes beyond the high-level overview of the new 10g features and give working examples about how the features relate to existing Oracle9i systems.

This is one book that I expect to use very frequently as I get started in 10g.

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