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Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference book that serves Oracle database administrators using Oracle Database 11g. Summary Of The Book This comprehensive handbook covers all aspects pertaining to database administration, including recovery and backup, administration and recovery on a daily basis, and performance tuning. It also explains important DBA commands, and presents material on Unix/Linux, PL/SQL, and data modelling. In short, it’s a book that will help Oracle database administrators around the globe get the job done. Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration is useful for Oracle database administrators at beginners level as it provides in-depth knowledge of the subject. This book acts as a one-stop volume for these beginning database administrators. Also forming a part of the book’s intended audience are intermediate-level Oracle Database 11g database administrators, Oracle developers and Windows or Linux/Unix system administrators looking to acquire Oracle database administration skills, managers who want to have a know-how of database management, and anyone looking to learn Oracle database administration on his or her own. The subject matter presentation in this book imitates real-life practical training. The author, therefore, follows the same process that one would undertake in learning Oracle database administration in real life. He starts with a discussion of database modelling and Unix. In the following chapters, he deals with loading and unloading of data, recovery and backup, and performance tuning. The readers will also come across many examples that illustrate the packets of theory contained within the different sections of the text. These examples are detailed, and are presented stepwise to make learning thorough and easy. About Sam R. Alapati Sam R. Alapati is an Oracle database administrator. He is the author of Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes, Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g, and Oracle Database 12c Performance Tuning Recipes. Sam is currently engaged with managing Oracle databases at the national headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America in Texas. He was previously working for AMR Holdings and the Blanch Company in Dallas, and has also worked for NBC and Lehman Brothers on behalf of Oracle. He was also a senior principal consultant for Oracle corporation in New York. He holds the Hewlett-Packard UNIX System Administrator and the Oracle Certified Professional designation. He is richly experienced in working with databases, ever since the time of the Ingres RDBMS in the 80s.