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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)
Scaling Oracle8i: Building Highly Scalable OLTP System Architectures
by James Morle, James Morie
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
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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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Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780201325744
- Publisher:
- Addison-Wesley
- Publication date:
- 12/23/1999
- Edition description:
- BK&CD ROM
- Pages:
- 544
- Product dimensions:
- 7.37(w) x 9.13(h) x 1.13(d)
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This is a book about getting the most out of Oracle8i on UNIX systems. While many people understand how to administrate Oracle and UNIX, far fewer understand the issues and workings of the software and hardware, thus limiting the scalability of the system. This book aims to open up this essential information, enabling the reader to build faster, larger, and more scalable systems than ever before.
The purpose of this book is to provide grounding in all the areas required for large systems implementation using UNIX and Oracle8i. Some of the information in this text is available elsewhere, scattered throughout a large number of specialized volumes, while other information, taken from experience in implementing such systems, is previously undocumented.
Unlike many Oracle books, this book avoids the "one size fits all," cookbook approach to improving the skillset of the reader. In my opinion, such books do little to improve foundation skills and serve only to confuse readers when their circumstances deviate from those of the author. Rather, the intent of this book is to communicate a distillation of many years of experience in building very large Oracle database systems. The information presented here allows the reader to make informed decisions, based on real facts, that directly apply to the actual case at hand.
Where appropriate, this book will make recommendations to the reader, mostly from an approach standpoint. These recommendations are intended to guide the reader past some of the common pitfalls often encountered during the building of large systems. In addition to technical information, the book also makes organizational and procedural recommendations intended to help the reader avoid dead ends and other sources of aggravation.
Although the focus of this book is on Oracle8i, the principles presented also apply to other database software. UNIX is the premier platform for very large Oracle systems and is therefore presented as the underlying operating system, although many of the hardware and theoretical discussions also apply to other operating systems, such as Windows NT. Large, custom-written applications are the main target of this book, but all of the concepts presented here also apply in varying degrees to smaller systems and packaged applications.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is primarily aimed at the following audiences.
- System architects
- Database engineers wanting to expand their knowledge
- System administrators working on UNIX/Oracle systems
- Senior application developers
- Technology managers
- Computer science students
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