Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 240 pages
- Published by: Prentice Hall PTR June 14, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0130325848
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130325846
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Back Cover Copy
- The definitive, real-world guide to Oracle data warehousing
- Maximizing performance, flexibility, and manageability in production environments
- Hardware/software architectures, star schema design, partitioning, and more
- Industrial strength data loading and query optimization techniques
- By the world-renowned architect of 7-Eleven's multi-terabyte datawarehouse
Maximize Oracle data warehouse performance, flexibility, and manageability Oracle DBAs finally have a definitive guide to every aspect of designing, constructing, tuning, and maintaining star schema data warehouses with Oracle 8i and 9i. Bert Scalzo, one of the world's leading Oracle data warehousing experts, offers practical, hard-won lessons and breakthrough techniques for maximizing performance, flexibility, and manageability in any production environment. Coverage includes:
- Data warehousing basics for DBAs--including what a data warehouse isn't
- Planning software architecture: business intelligence, user interfaces, Oracle versions, OS platforms, and more
- Planning hardware architecture: CPUs, memory, disk space, and configuration
- Radically different star schema design for radically improved performance
- Tuning ad-hoc queries for lightning speed Industrial-strength data loading techniques
- Aggregate tables: maximizing performance benefits, minimizing complexity tradeoffs
- Improving manageability: The right ways to partition
- Data warehouse administration: Backup/recovery, space and extent management, updates, patches, and more
About The Author
BERT SCALZO is a product architect for Quest Software. As a member ofthe TOAD development team, he designed many of the features in the TOADDBA module. Scalzo has presented numerous papers on data warehousing andled or served on data warehouse special interest groups at Oracle eventsthroughout the past five years. He has worked for both Oracle Educationand Oracle Consulting, holds several Oracle Masters, a Ph.D. in ComputerScience, an MBA, and several insurance industry designations. Scalzodesigned 7-Eleven's multi-terabyte, star-schema data warehouse. He isauthor of
The TOAD Handbook.
Reader ReviewsThe book offers a number of detailed tuning tips and insights from Mr. Scalzo's real world experience. That being said, the tone of the writing is really annoying. Mr. Scalzo's condescending style is unnecessary and takes away from what could be a very good book. At points, I actually broke out in laughter at his arrogance. However, if you can get past the author's attitude the content of the book seems to be quite helpful.
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