Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5

Monitor, diagnose, and maximize the system performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions

• Manage your Oracle Fusion Middleware and non-Oracle middleware applications effectively and efficiently using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Conrol
• Implement proactive monitoring to maximize application performance
• Best practices and troubleshooting tips to manage your middleware and SOA applications for optimal service levels and reduced down time from Oracle Product Managers
• A Hands-on tutorial detailing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control's management of Middleware

In Detail

Today's IT environment is very complex, encompassing a myriad of technologies and middleware platforms. Many organizations have large and heterogeneous middleware platforms that power their enterprise applications and it is often a real challenge for administrators to meet agreed service levels and minimize downtime. Oracle Enterprise Manager allows administrators to manage the complete lifecycle of an entire application infrastructure for middleware and SOA applications.

This book will help you kick-start the setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and master all aspects of middleware management supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager.

This book, written by senior members of the Oracle team serves as the only hands on guide to provisioning middleware and implementing proactive monitoring to maximize application performance and compliance using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

The book starts with an introduction to the challenges faced by middleware administrators in their everyday life, and how Oracle Enterprise Manager helps solve those challenges. This book will help you manage your middleware infrastructure and applications effectively and efficiently using Oracle Enterprise Manager. By following the practical examples in this book you will learn to proactively monitor your production middleware applications running on Oracle Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA suite (such as Oracle BPEL Process manager), Oracle Server Bus, and Oracle Coherence. You will also learn different aspects to proactive monitoring and alert notifications, service level and incident management, diagnostics for production applications, lifecycle automation using out-of-the-box deployment procedures, and patching mechanisms. This book also helps you to master best practices for managing your middleware and SOA applications for optimal service performance and reduced down time.

What you will learn from this book?

You will:

• Gain a deep understanding of the challenges in managing middleware platforms and applications
• Understand the architecture of Enterprise Manager, and how best to set it up
• Discover middleware platforms (WebLogic, OC4J, BPEL, OSB, Coherence, Oracle Forms and Reports, etc. and non-Oracle middleware) from Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Monitor event notifications and diagnostics for middleware platforms and Java EE/Composite applications
• Create and export application service levels
• Manage middleware and application configurations
• Provision your middleware platform
• Build plug-ins for new target types

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Oracle SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Have you ever been faced with a new type of query to write, or been asked to create an unfamiliar database object? In such situations, you have probably wanted a good, solid example upon which to build, and instead have been forced into the drudgery of parsing railroad-style syntax diagrams in Oracle's manual set. This book frees you from that drudgery by providing tested and working examples of SQL used to solve common problems faced by developers and database administrators on a daily basis. When you're under pressure to get results fast, Oracle SQL Recipes is there at your side.

• Example-based, providing quality solutions to everyday problems
• Respects your time by putting solutions first and keeping discussions short
• Solves the most commonly encountered SQL problems

What you'll learn

• Recognize common query patterns and apply their corresponding solutions.
• Solve common reporting problems such as sorting rows into buckets.
• Troubleshoot SQL performance problems.
• Create and manage database objects such as tables, indexes, and views.
• Work with XML and tree-structured data.
• Take advantage of analytic functions, regular expressions, hierarchical query support, and other powerful aspects of Oracle SQL.

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Oracle PL/SQL Programming

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 11g Release 2, this edition reveals new PL/SQL features and provides extensive code samples, ranging from simple examples to complex and complete applications, in the book and on the companion website.

This indispensable reference for both novices and experienced Oracle programmers will help you:

* Get PL/SQL programs up and running quickly, with clear instructions for executing, tracing, testing, debugging, and managing PL/SQL code
* Optimize PL/SQL performance with the aid of a brand-new chapter in the fifth edition
* Explore datatypes, conditional and sequential control statements, loops, exception handling, security features, globalization and localization issues, and the PL/SQL architecture
* Understand and use new Oracle Database 11g features, including the edition-based redefinition capability, the function result cache, the new CONTINUE statement, fine-grained dependency tracking, sequences in PL/SQL expressions, supertype invocation from subtypes, and enhancements to native compilation, triggers, and dynamic SQL
* Use new Oracle Database 11g tools and techniques such as PL/Scope, the PL/SQL hierarchical profiler, and the SecureFiles technology for large objects
* Build modular PL/SQL applications using procedures, functions, triggers, and packages

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Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook

Master Oracle Data Guard 11g

Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices for configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You will get full details on implementing deployment architectures to address requirements that extend beyond disaster recovery. This invaluable resource also includes a complete set of monitoring scripts available for download.

* Develop a disaster recovery plan for your Oracle database to meet your organization's requirements
* Configure and deploy Oracle Data Guard for your environment
* Tune and troubleshoot your physical and logical standby databases
* Implement the Oracle Data Guard Broker management framework
* Integrate with Oracle Grid Control
* Monitor your Oracle Data Guard environment
* Enable read-only services and disaster recovery with Oracle Active Data Guard
* Configure seamless database and application failover
* Minimize planned downtime using Oracle Data Guard switchover
* Handle backup and recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager

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OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide: (Exam 1Z0-053)

Prepare for OCP certification in Oracle Database 11g

Study, practice, and review for Oracle Certified Professional certification in Oracle 11g, Oracle's new release of its top-selling database software. Inside this in-depth guide, you'll find full coverage of essential topics for the very latest, updated Administration II exam (1Z0-053), including database architecture and ASM; configuring backups; using Flashback technology; managing database performance, memory, and resources; and more. Get extra exam practice using the exercise workbook in the Appendix. Start your preparation today with:

Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need for the exam

Bonus Exercise Workbook that allows you to practice as you learn Real-world scenarios that put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles

Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day

Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam

A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective

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Oracle PL/SQL by Example (4th Edition)

This integrated learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects! Completely updated for Oracle 11g, Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Fourth Edition covers all the fundamentals, from PL/SQL syntax and program control through packages and Oracle 11g’s significantly improved triggers.

One step at a time, you’ll walk through every key task, discovering the most important PL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Building on your hands-on learning, the authors share solutions that offer deeper insights and proven best practices. End-of-chapter projects bring together all the techniques you’ve learned, strengthening your understanding through real-world practice.

This book’s approach fully reflects the authors’ award-winning experience teaching PL/SQL programming to professionals at Columbia University. New database developers and DBAs can use its step-by-step instructions to get productive fast; experienced PL/SQL programmers can use this book as a practical solutions reference. Coverage includes

• Mastering basic PL/SQL concepts and general programming language fundamentals, and understanding SQL’s role in PL/SQL

• Using conditional and iterative program control techniques, including the new CONTINUE and CONTINUE WHEN statements

• Efficiently handling errors and exceptions

• Working with cursors and triggers, including Oracle 11g’s powerful new compound triggers

• Using stored procedures, functions, and packages to write modular code that other programs can execute

• Working with collections, object-relational features, native dynamic SQL, bulk SQL, and other advanced PL/SQL capabilities

• Handy reference appendices: PL/SQL formatting guide, sample database schema, ANSI SQL standards reference, and more

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Troubleshooting Oracle Performance

What do you do when your database application isn’t running fast enough? You troubleshoot, of course. Finding the slow part of an application is often the easy part of the battle. It’s finding a solution that’s difficult. Troubleshooting Oracle Performance helps by providing a systematic approach to addressing the underlying causes of poor database application performance.

* Written for developers by an application developer who has learned by doing

* Gives a systematic approach to solving database application performance problems

* Helps you plan for performance as you would for any other application requirement

What you’ll learn

* See how to treat and plan for performance as a basic application requirement.

* Identify performance problems using a systematic and repeatable approach.

* Configure your query optimizer to meet your application performance goals.

* Optimize table accesses, joins, and physical table layout.

* Read and recognize inefficient SQL execution plans.

* Reduce inefficiencies from too much procedural code.

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OCP Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide

Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11g New Features for Administrators exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test, and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCP objectives for exam 1Z0-050, including:

* Installation and upgrades
* Partitioning and storage
* Intelligent infrastructure
* Diagnostics and fault management
* Performance
* Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback
* Security
* Oracle SQL Performance Analyzer
* SQL plan management
* Automatic SQL tuning

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Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming

Book Description

Design Feature-Rich PL/SQL Applications

Deliver dynamic, client/server PL/SQL applications with expert guidance from an Oracle programming professional. With full coverage of the latest features and tools, Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming lays out each topic alongside detailed explanations, cut-and-paste syntax examples, and real-world case studies. Access and modify database information, construct powerful PL/SQL statements, execute effective queries, and deploy bulletproof security. You'll also learn how to implement C, C++, and Java procedures, Web-enable your database, cut development time, and optimize performance.

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Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g

Book Description

Oracle is an enormous system, with myriad technologies, options, and releases. Most users-even experienced developers and database administrators-find it difficult to get a handle on the full scope of the Oracle database. And, as each new Oracle version is released, users find themselves under increasing pressure to learn about a whole range of new technologies. The latest challenge is Oracle Database 11g.

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Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook

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The bestselling, comprehensive guide to Oracle database administration, fully revised for the new release

This essential resource for Oracle DBAs has been completely updated to cover the new features of Oracle Database 11g, the industry standard Web-enabled enterprise database system. Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook details each topic with an emphasis on the big picture, enabling you to achieve effective and efficient database management.

You will learn to get up-and-running on Oracle Database 11g, develop and implement applications, manage storage space, and create reliable system backups. New and revised sections cover high availability, performance optimization, information management, and security procedures. Real-world examples and case studies illustrate each concept along the way.

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