Oracle Core Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers by Lewis, Jonathan [Apress,2011]

by Jonathan Lewis

Oracle Core Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers by Lewis, Jonathan. Published by Apress,2011, Paperback

Genres: Programming

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Corrado Piola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every Oracle expert knows Jonathan Lewis and all his work about internals.
His books, like "Practical Oracle 8i" and "Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals", and the so many documents that you can find in the web, are really a must for everyone who wants to learn how Oracle works under the covers.
Oracle Core is simply perfect. It explains very well how transactions work and how locks and latches are acquired and managed.
You can learn the internal structure of the Database Buffer Cache, the Library Cache and how are implemented the LRU algorithms.
Undo and Redo mechanisms are really well cleared and they constitute my favourite Chapter in the book.

I think that the User level declared for the book (Beginning-Intermediate) is not really correct.
I don't want to say that a Beginner cannot read it, but I think that a Beginner may lose some important details that make this book simply unique.
I suggest a previous reading, to well understand the Oracle architecture and get the right background (Tom Kyte's book "Expert Oracle Database Architecture" is a perfect and detailed resource).
Infact, this book cannot explain some basics (this is a 250 pages book) because it's not been written for that scope.

Finally, I strongly recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn more, and more, and more...

[Pavel · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a very hard tech book with lots of binary file dumps.

[Antidb · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book years ago when I reversed engineering the redo log structure and data file structure, it helped me a lot.

[Yahoo]

good book