Easy Oracle Automation - Oracle10g Automatic Storage, Memory and Diagnostic Features

This indispensable book shows how a non-Oracle person can quickly install and configure Oracle database 10g for automatic database administration. In less than a day, you can have a complete ready-to-use Oracle database.

Written by one of the world's leading Oracle technology experts, Professor Kumar targets his insights into this highly pragmatic book. This book explains how to use the powerful Oracle 10g automatic features for simple database administration. It has complete coverage for 10g Automatic Storage Management (ASM), 10g Automatic Workload Repository (AWR), Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), Automatic SGA Management (ASM) and the SQL Tuning Advisor.

For practicing Oracle professionals, this book has a special "for gurus" section at the end of each chapter where Dr. Kumar explains the new Oracle10g v$ views and exposes the internal mechanisms behind these automatic tuning and configuration tools.