Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions

Intended for application developers familiar with SQL, this guide describes the files, memory structures, and processes that comprise an Oracle database, and explains the implementation of locking, concurrency controls, and transactions. The author also compares the different types of database tables and indexes, and explores each of the 22 built-in datatypes. The second edition covers features new to Oracle database 11g release 2 and adds a section on tablespace encryption. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Thomas Kyte is vice president of the Core Technologies Group at Oracle Corporation and has been with the company since version 7.0.9 was released in 1993. Kyte, however, has been working with Oracle since version 5.1.5c. At Oracle, Kyte works with the Oracle database, and more specifically, he helps clients who are using the Oracle database and works directly with them specifying and building their systems or rebuilding and tuning them. Prior to working at Oracle, Kyte was a systems integrator who built large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications for military and government clients.Tom Kyte is the same "Ask Tom" whose column appears in Oracle Magazine, where he answers questions about the Oracle database and tools that developers and database administrators struggle with every day.