
Rdb
A Comprehensive Guide
Digital Press
3rd Edition
Published on 14. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-55558-186-2 (ISBN)
Description
The definitive book on Oracle's Rdb database. Written by a team of bestselling database experts, including a principal product architect, this is unquestionably the definitive book on Oracle's Rdb8, the latest version of the powerful database for advanced enterprise applications. Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition teaches administrators, programmers, database designers and IT managers the critical components and functions of the new version 8 and explains how to develop powerful Rdb8 programs. The book specifically addresses new Rdb8 management, tuning and scalability tools and describes the new Rdb/NT Workbench for Windows NT. No other source gives readers the authoritative and timely information provided by Rdb: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Approx. 200 illustrations; Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55558-186-2 (9781555581862)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition

Book
04/1995
2nd Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€63.33
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Persons
Lilian Hobbs is a member of the Oracle Corporation New England Development Centre living in the UK. During the day she works on Oracle databases, but when she isn't writing books, Lilian is a keen astronomer and mountain bike rider. To find out more about this author you can visit her Web site at home.clara.net/lmhobbs. Lilian is the author of the following Made Simple books: Designing Internet Home Pages; Windows NT. Also, she is the author of the following Digital Press Books: RdB: A Comprehensive Guide; Digital's CDD/Repository (with Ken England); Oracle8i Data Warehousing.
Author
Senior Principal Product Manager in Oracle's New England Development Center.
Content
Components
Data definition
Data manipulation
Storage structures
Table access
The optimizer
Transaction management
Security
Database integrity
Database restructuring
Tuning and optimization
Distributing Rdb databases
Interoperability
The Internet and Rdb
Database tools
Application programming
Rdb/NT Workbench
Appendix: Banking Database Definition
Data definition
Data manipulation
Storage structures
Table access
The optimizer
Transaction management
Security
Database integrity
Database restructuring
Tuning and optimization
Distributing Rdb databases
Interoperability
The Internet and Rdb
Database tools
Application programming
Rdb/NT Workbench
Appendix: Banking Database Definition