Oracle 8 In 21 Days

Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days is a tutorial that will teach the reader the basics of using and administrating an Oracle database. This book focuses on using concrete examples to explain why things should be done in a certain way. The key topics are broken out by week below: Week One Overview of the Oracle8 Architecture, Network Computing Architecture (NCA), Installing Oracle, Planning the Database, How to Administer Users, and How to Manage Processes. Week Two Administering Logs, Control Files, Datafiles, and Tablespaces, Controlling Rolback Segments, Building Tables and Views, Using Indexes and Clusters, and Security. Week Three Effective Backup Techniques, Recovering the Database, Administering Oracle Replication, Tuning and Optimizing the Database, Administering the Oracle Web Server, and Advanced Oracle Options.