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Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers is a comprehensive, example-laden review of the new features and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation's flagship database product. Learn what's new that really counts See actual examples and test run output Book for Developers and Database Administrators Make sound decisions on new feature adoption Chapter dedicated for ASM New Features Chapter dedicated for Data Guard New Features Chapter dedicated for RMAN New Features Chapter dedicated for Streams Replication Chapter dedicated for Database Security Chapter dedicated for Data Warehousing Chapter dedicated for Performance Manageability Chapter dedicated for Application Development coverting PL/SQL, Java, and XML

Discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle's flagship database product are really worth adopting.

Years of database administration and development experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are combined with sound, step-by-step testing and a heart-felt emphasis on what matters in the real-world to help you get the most out of Oracle Database 11g. We would like to thank David Sweet for his exclusive contribution to the development chapter in the areas of PL/SQL and Java.

Charles Kim is also the technical editor for the Automated Storage Management book by Nitin Vengurlekar and Murali Vallath. This comprehensive resource provides full details on Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Oracle's integrated file and volume management interface. You will get full details on general operations, administration, best practices, and expert techniques. Oracle DBAs will be able to implement robust storage solutions with help from this useful guide.   Here are some of the professional services provided by our Database Experts What we do best: We specialize in implementing industry proven solutions to deliver Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) - Real Application Clusters (RAC) + Data Guard (DG) + Recovery Manager (RMAN) + Automated Storage Management (ASM) and Flashback. Our solutions can provide you the higest availability possible leveraging all of Oracle's best innovations. Our consultants can take you to the enterprise level: Learn about the lastest and greatest new features of Oracle 11g from us. Staffed with us are the authors of Oracle 11g New Features books. Come learn the best from the best. Implement the best of breed technology stack with us.

Maximum Availability By implementing a cost-effective technology such as Oracle 10g and 11g RAC, we can provide maximum uptime for a company's mission-critical systems. RAC will also ensure scalability to handle increased future workloads. We have experts in this discipline to successfully provide a clustered environment for your databases.

Charles Kim is also the author of the Maximum Availability Architecture Implementation Case Study for Fidelity National Financial (FNF). Charles served as the Chief Oracle Database Engineering Counsel at Fidelity Information Services at the time this case study was presented. FNF achieved MAA through Oracle Technology Stack including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, Flashback Technologies, and RMAN.

RAC We have RAC expertise in AIX, HP, Sun and Linux (Redhat, Enterprise Linux, SuSe) platforms on NFS, OCFS2, and ASM. Our panel of RAC experts have implementation experience in 10g / 11g RAC and provide in-depth documentation.

Disaster Recovery We can implement the best disaster recovery solution using Data Guard so that you maximize your return on investment at your Disaster Recovery site. Believe it or not, you can use your Data Guard site for Load Testing or reporting and still maintain a Data Guarded environment. With Oracle 11g, you can take advantage of reader farms for optimal throughput in data guard environments for reports. Oracle 11g real-time query standby database can offload all reporting requirements to the physical standby database for real-time reporting. Our consultants have experience setting up 11g real-time and snapshot standby databases.

Monitoring We monitor the system and the database for critical and major events. We proactively monitor key areas of the database so that we can identify and resolve issues before they cause potential outages. We are proactive, and we make sure the database is the solid foundation in your system.

Database Tuning We constantly evaluate your system for performance bottlenecks. We've found that subtle tweaks often yield the greatest results in performance. Our extensive experience with a wide variety of Oracle databases gives us the edge in performance tuning.

Security We utilize the latest techniques to ensure the utmost in data reliability without sacrificing or compromising access of the data by non-privileged users. Oracle 11g offers tightly integrated encryption algorithms and security out of the box. Our consultants can help you to take advantage of all the Oracle 11g new security features!

Capacity Planning Space and resource management are two areas that can cause degradation in performance or even worse, outage to databases applications. By monitoring and forecasting capacity, we are able to ensure the highest performance and provide management reports for managing future growth.

Backup/Recovery We can guarantee data recovery to any point-in-time by utilizing the latest backup and recovery techniques.

Application Tuning We can train your developers to utilize the latest SQL tuning techniques and decrease the duration of your application response time. Access to the underlying data in your database will be done with minimal disk I/O and applications will by noticeably faster with higher throughput.