I've been asked by the publishers to review "Oracle Database 11g Release 2: Performance Tuning Tips and Techniques" by Richard Niemiec of TUSC. Conclusion: it is good but not perfect. This is an extended version of the review I put up on Amazon.

Dependency Oracle schema is the place where all the Database objects get stored. This make a room for the entire set of objects under the Category of Data Storage ( Tables, Views) and Data Access (Stored Procedure ,Functions ,Packages and Triggers) .These Objects make a reference across all these objects to form the application.This is known as dependency.

Conventional Dependency Model If an Object B is being referrd from object A (ie Object A refers another Object B) , Object A is known as Dependant Object and Object B is Known as referenced Object.

Hello,

It gives me great pleasure and honour to announce my upcoming book Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Professional Guide with Pact Publishers. The book 'Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Professional Guide' is focussed on the preparation of OCP (1Z0-146) examination. The book doesn't restricts its scope to the examination but aims to strengthen the advanced concepts in Oracle 11g PL/SQL.

The book has been reviewed by Oracle ACEs Kamran Agayev, Ronald Rood and Mohan Dutta. It is under production and is expected to be released by May, 2012.

Basics of Partition Tables

Partitioning is a method of splitting an object (a table or index) into separate parts (called partitions) based on some criterion that is assigned to the partition. The criterion might be a date range, a number range, or any other possible value. Imagine, for example, that you have a huge table that is driving you crazy because queries on it are really slow. You get so mad at this table that you take a logical hatchet and begin to slice the table up into many smaller tables is a partition.

The old Oracle join syntax really should be consigned to history.

This single script provides the overall picture of the database in terms of Waits events, Active/Inactive killed sessions, Top Processes (physical I/O, logical I/O, memory and CPU processes), Top CPU usage by users, etc.

[code]set serveroutput on
declare
cursor c1 is select version
from v$instance;
cursor c2 is
select
host_name
, instance_name
, to_char(sysdate, 'HH24:MI:SS DD-MON-YY') currtime
, to_char(startup_time, 'HH24:MI:SS DD-MON-YY') starttime
from v$instance;
cursor c4 is
select * from (SELECT count(*) cnt, substr(event,1,50)