Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide / Edition 3

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Overview

The definitive book on Oracle's Rdb database.

Written by a team of bestselling database experts, including a principal product architect, this is unquestionably the definitive book on Oracle's Rdb8, the latest version of the powerful database for advanced enterprise applications. Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition teaches administrators, programmers, database designers and IT managers the critical components and functions of the new version 8 and explains how to develop powerful Rdb8 programs. The book specifically addresses new Rdb8 management, tuning and scalability tools and describes the new Rdb/NT Workbench for Windows NT. No other source gives readers the authoritative and timely information provided by Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition.

Only book on Rdb8
Written by Rdb8 experts from Oracle, including the principal product architect
Explains how to use Rdb8 on both Windows NT and OpenVMS

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A guide to Oracle's Rdb8, a database for advanced enterprise applications. Teaches administrators, programmers, database designers, and IT managers critical components and functions of the latest version and explains how to develop powerful programs. Addresses new Rdb8 management, tuning, and scalability tools and describes the new Rdb/NT Workbench for Windows NT. This third edition contains a new chapter on Rdb as an Internet database, and expanded information on tuning. Hobbs is a consultant at Oracle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555581862
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
  • Publication date: 9/28/1999
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 480
  • Product dimensions: 0.97 (w) x 7.50 (h) x 9.25 (d)

Meet the Author

Lilian Hobbs is a member of the Oracle Corporation New England Development Centre living in the UK. During the day she works on Oracle databases, but when she isn't writing books, Lilian is a keen astronomer and mountain bike rider. To find out more about this author you can visit her Web site at home.clara.net/lmhobbs. Lilian is the author of the following Made Simple books: Designing Internet Home Pages; Windows NT. Also, she is the author of the following Digital Press Books: RdB: A Comprehensive Guide; Digital's CDD/Repository (with Ken England); Oracle8i Data Warehousing.
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Table of Contents

Components; Data definition; Data manipulation; Storage structures; Table access; The optimizer; Transaction management; Security; Database integrity; Database restructuring; Tuning and optimization; Distributing Rdb databases; Interoperability; The Internet and Rdb; Database tools; Application programming; Rdb/NT Workbench; Appendix: Banking Database Definition
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