High Performance Oracle 8 Tuning (Paperback, illustrated edition)

This text aims to provide everything an Oracle 8 professional needs to know to create high-quality, high-performance databases and database applications. Featuring real-world examples, it should optimize the user's efforts by focusing on the handful of tuning techniques that provide maximum benefit. The book explains the complex internals of the Oracle engine in simple, easy-to-understand terms, and gives the reader immediate insight into how Oracle manages data. A CD-ROM is included.