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This book distills an enormous amount of information about O racle into a compact, easy-to-read volume filled with focuse d text, illustrations, and helpful hints. It contains chapte rs on: * Oracle products, options, data structures, and overall architecture for Oracle Database 11g, as well as earlier re leases (Oracle Database 10g, Oracle9i, and Oracle8i) * Installing, running, managing, monitoring, networking, and tuning Oracle, including Enterprise Manager (EM) and Or acle's self-tuning and management capabilities; and using Or acle security, auditing, and compliance (a new chapter in th is edition) * Multiuser concurrency, data warehouses, distributed da tabases, online transaction processing (OLTP), high availabi lity, and hardware architectures (e.g., SMP, clusters, NUMA, and grid computing) * Features beyond the Oracle database: Oracle Applicatio n Express, Fusion Middleware (including Oracle Application S erver), and database SOA support as a Web services provider The latest Oracle Database 11g features: query result set ca ching, Automatic Memory Management, the Real Application Tes ting, Advanced Compression, Total Recall, and Active Data Gu ard Option Options, changes to the OLAP Option (transparentl y accessed and managed as materialized views), the Flashback transaction command, transparent data encryption, the Suppo rt Workbench (and diagnosability infrastructure), and partit ioning enhancements (including interval and new composite ty pes) | 
