Learn How To Maintain The Oracle Standards
The chapter, "Maintaining Oracle Standards" discusses "standards" such as Oracle's Optimal Flexible Architecture, Unix shell scripting, code and configuration basics. The new 11g Automatic Diagnostic Repository features, for diagnosing and repairing certain types of failures, will be outlined in the chapter as well.

The core principles of a service-oriented architecture with BizTalk Server 2009
This article defines a service, describes the core principle of service and teaches readers how the service-orientation principles apply to a BizTalk Server solution

Getting Your First Notification In Zabbix
In the chapter, "Getting Your First Notification" readers will learn to configure Zabbix using the PHP frontend to set up data gathering required to monitor an item, create a trigger and get a notification on this trigger.

N-Way Replication with New Oracle Streams book from Packt
N-Way replication takes the concepts for setting upa single-source configuration and applies it to a multi-master, or N-Way Replication environment configuration. Planning for N-Way replication starts with conflict resolution. Working with your business units is a must and setting and managing expectations needs to be done before any discussion of implementation. The use of Use Case scenarios driven down to transactions then to tables involved in those tansactions is one method to promote discussions with business units.

Learn to integrate your SQl developer with open source version with Oracle Sql developer
Use the powerful GUI to browse your database objects, run SQL statements and scripts, and create, edit, debug, and test PL/SQL code in a highly productive environment with new book from Oracle SQl developer 2.1

Loading and Exporting Data
A collection of 27 FAQs on Oracle loading data and exporting data. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on saving data as flat files, loading data from flat, exporting and importing database, schema and tables, creating external tables.

Oracle Basic Concepts
This is a collection of FAQ for Oracle DBA on fundamental concepts. The clear answers and sample scripts provided can be used as learning tutorials or interview preparation guides.

Understanding SQL SELECT Query Statements
A collection of 33 FAQs on Oracle SQL SELECT query statements. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on selecting rows and columns from tables and views, sorting and counting query outputs, grouping outputs and applying group functions, joining tables, using subqueries.

Understanding SQL Transaction Management
A collection of 22 FAQs on Oracle SQL SELECT query statements. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on starting and ending transactions, committing and rolling back transactions, transaction/statement-level read consistency, read committed isolation level, locks and dead locks.

Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges
A collection of 23 FAQs on Oracle user account, schema and privileges. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on creating user accounts, granting privileges for session connections, granting privileges for creating tables and inserting rows.

Understanding SQL Basics
A collection of 28 FAQs on Oracle SQL language basics. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on data types, data literals, date and time values, data and time intervals, converting to dates and times, NULL values, pattern matches.

Understanding SQL DDL Statements
A collection of 12 FAQs on Oracle SQL DDL statements. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on creating, altering and dropping tables, indexes, and views.

Understanding SQL DML Statements
A collection of 15 FAQs on Oracle SQL DML statements. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on inserting, updating and deleting rows from database tables.

Managing Oracle Database Tables
A collection of 17 FAQs on database tables for DBA and developers. Clear answers are provided together with tutorial exercises to help beginners on creating, altering and removing tables, adding, altering and removing columns, and working with recycle bin.

Understanding PL/SQL Language Basics
A collection of 22 FAQs on PL/SQL language basics or DBA and developers. It can also be used as learning tutorials on defining variables, assigning values, using "loop" statements, setting "if" conditions, and working with null values.