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An ideal book for database administrators, Oracle Core: Essential Internals For DBAs And Developers provides essential information about the internal working of Oracle Database in a compact manner. Summary Of The Book Oracle Database is a seemingly complex subject at first glance. But, the broad features are built on a strong foundation that has been in use for many decades. This infrastructure helps to manage transactions, while at the same time protects the integrity of the database. It also enables recovery or backup, which allows scalability so that many users can access the same data without any kind of problem. All in all, most of the problems of performance, backup, and recovery faced by database administrators are easily identified and addressed in Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers. Furthermore, the book also emphasises the need for understanding the internal working of the database so that there can be quicker identification for solutions to be implemented easily. Some of the contents in the book include caches and copies, transactions and consistency, RAC and ruin, writing and recovery, redo and undo, locks and latches, and parsing and optimizing. Targeted mainly at those people who have been in the field of database administration for some time, the book has good technical depth and serves as a good reference book for even experienced database administrators. By reading this book, experienced database administrators will be able to add to their knowledge and understand the database system in a more intimate manner. About Jonathan Lewis Jonathan Lewis is an author, troubleshooting consultant and a database specialist. He has also authored Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals, Oracle Database 10g New features and Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases. Currently residing in the UK, he has also given several presentations at the UK Oracle User Group as well as at the Danish Database Forum. He also makes daily and two day tutorials, which he has presented to large corporations at both public and private events in nearly 49 different countries. He is also a regular writer for Oracle Scene.