Database Systems design Implementation and Management

DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MANAGEMENT, NINTH EDITION, a market-leader for database texts, gives readers a solid foundation in practical database design and implementation. The book provides in-depth coverage of database design, demonstrating that the key to successful database implementation is in proper design of databases to fit within a larger strategic view of the data environment. -Updated coverage of data models. -Improved coverage of normalization with a data modeling checklist. -Enhanced coverage of of database design and life cycle. -New review questions, problem sets, and cases throughout the book. With a strong hands-on component that includes real-world examples and exercises, this book will help students develop database design skills that have valuable and meaningful application in the real world.

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Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

 

In Detail
Oracle Essbase is a Multi-Dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios.
This practical cookbook shows you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further.
Packed with over 90 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to use a relational data model to build and load an Essbase cube and how to create a data source, prepare the mini schema, and work with the data elements in Essbase Studio. The book then dives into topics such as building the BSO cube, building the ASO cube, using EAS for development, creating Calculation Scripts and using MaxL to automate processes.

What you will learn from this book

• Design components of a Data Mart to use as data source, maintain meta-data, and support drill-through reporting.
• Setup a Data Source and Minischema in Essbase Studio so that metadata elements can be manipulated and hierarchies built.
• Create an Essbase Model, Cube Schema, drill-through report, and deploy both a Block Storage (BSO) and Aggregate Storage (ASO) application.
• Use Essbase Administration Services (EAS) to create applications, create and use substitution variables, and add complex outline formulas in both the Block Storage (BSO) and Aggregate Storage (ASO) models.
• Create dimension build rules, flat file load rules, and SQL load rules.
• Create complex calculations using the Calculation Script Editor, optimize a cube for calculations, and run allocation calculations off an Aggregate Storage database.
• Automate processes via MaxL scripts and integrate data between Essbase databases and to relational databases
• Design effective security and build dynamic reports

Approach
This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further.
This cookbook offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced development techniques to build Essbase Applications and take them further. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in Essbase and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that you can either read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes that you want in no particular order.

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Oracle BI Publisher 11g A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting

Create and deliver improved snapshots in time of your Enterprise data using Oracle BI Publisher 11g with this hands-on book and eBook guide

• A practical tutorial for improving your Enterprise reporting skills with Oracle BI Publisher 11g
• Master report migration, template design, and E-Business Suite integration
• A practical guide brimming with tips about all the new features of the 11g release

In Detail

Oracle BI Publisher 11g (formerly XML Publisher) enables the creation, management and delivery of various reports, making it a desirable tool for any company to achieve the best image of your resources. This book offers practical application of BIP functionality for improving your ability to design and deliver quality reports just when they are needed.

"Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting" is an applicable guide for using Oracle BIP from the perspective of a report developer, helping you to utilize the tool from simple to complex report design. You can take advantage of both the existing functionality of BIP 10g, as well as a special emphasis on the new 11g features.

This guide will take you on a tour of Oracle BI Publisher 11g, beginning with a description of the new 11g functionality. You'll continue by learning from a range of step-by-step procedures for building Data Models, Layout Templates and report configurations, packed with screenshots to help you along. Finally, you'll tackle themes like integration with Oracle EBS, Oracle report migration, and report translations.

By the end of "Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting", you'll be equipped with all you need to know to produce complex reports detailing your company's data.

What you will learn from this book

• Jump start your learning by understanding what Business Intelligence really means
• Migrate Oracle reports to Oracle BI Publisher 11g
• Get to grips with designing Data Models for reports in Oracle BIP 11g
• Master the management of multiple data sources
• Gain the skills to design the layout of reports and build BI Publisher templates
• Build RTF templates using Template Builder for MSWord
• Go further with Oracle BIP by integrating with E-Business Suite and dealing with report translations
• Learn how to build a report from beginning to end, including configuration

Approach

This is a practical guide with step-by step instructions for enhancing your application of Oracle BI Publisher 11g for enterprise reporting.

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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Oracle's Database offers great performance, scalability, and many features for DBAs and developers. Due to a wide choice of technologies, successful applications are good candidates to run into performance issues and when a problem arises it's very difficult to identify the cause and the right solution to the problem.

The Oracle Database 11g R2 Performance Tuning Cookbook helps DBAs and developers to understand every aspect of Oracle Database that can affect performance. You will be guided through implementing the correct solution in a proactive way before problems arise, and how to diagnose issues on your Oracle database-based solutions.

This fast-paced book offers solutions starting from application design and development, through the implementation of well-performing applications, to the details of deployment and delivering best-performance databases.

With this book you will quickly learn to apply the right methodology to tune the performance of an Oracle Database, and to optimize application design and SQL and PL/SQL code. By following the real-world examples you will see how to store your data in correct structures and access and manipulate them at a lightning speed. You will learn to speed up sort operations, hack the optimizer and the data loading process, and diagnose and tune memory, I/O, and contention issues.

The purpose of this cookbook is to provide concise recipes, which will help you to build and maintain a very high-speed Oracle Database environment.

Effectively apply performance tuning principles with concise recipes

What you will learn from this book

• Design applications that run at lightning speed
• Implement fast and scalable SQL and PL/SQL code
• Choose the correct structures to store the data and access them
• Optimize sort operations, such as order-by, Top-N queries, ranking, and set operators
• Help the optimizer to choose the right access plan to retrieve data at the best available speed
• Load data in the database at a faster speed by using the correct tools and options
• Tune the database memory to obtain maximum performance using available resources
• Tune the I/O operations, by designing a database over the I/O system
• Tune and reduce contention issues on data and structures by using an optimal design

Approach

In this book you will find both examples and theoretical concepts covered.

Every recipe is based on a script/procedure explained step-by-step, with screenshots, while theoretical concepts are explained in the context of the recipe, to explain why a solution performs better than another.

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SQL Injection Attacks and Defense

SQL injection represents one of the most dangerous and well-known, yet misunderstood, security vulnerabilities on the Internet, largely because there is no central repository of information to turn to for help. This is the only book devoted exclusively to this long-established but recently growing threat. It includes all the currently known information about these attacks and significant insight from its contributing team of SQL injection experts.

• What is SQL injection?-Understand what it is and how it works
• Find, confirm, and automate SQL injection discovery
• Discover tips and tricks for finding SQL injection within the code
• Create exploits using SQL injection
• Design to avoid the dangers of these attacks

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OCA Oracle Database 11g SQL Fundamentals I A Real World Certification Guide

Ace the 1Z0-051 SQL Fundamentals I exam and become a successful DBA by learning how SQL concepts work in the real world

• Successfully clear the first stepping stone towards attaining the Oracle Certified Associate Certification on Oracle Database 11g
• This book uses a real world example-driven approach that is easy to understand and makes engaging
• Complete coverage of the prescribed syllabus
• Learn from a range of self-test questions to fully equip you with the knowledge to pass this exam
• After reading this book, you can enter the exam room with confidence, knowing that you have done all you can to prepare for the big day

In Detail

The Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I exam is the first stepping stone in getting the Oracle Certified Associate Certification for Oracle Database 11g. The SQL programming language is used in every major relational database today and understanding the real world application of it is the key to becoming a successful DBA.

This book gives you: the essential real world skills to master relational data manipulation with Oracle SQL and prepares you to become an Oracle Certified Associate. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use it as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.

We begin with the essentials of why databases are important in today's information technology world and how they work.

We continue by explaining the concepts of querying and modifying data in Oracle using a range of techniques, including data projection, selection, creation, joins, sub-queries and functions. Finally, we learn to create and manipulate database objects and to use them in the same way as today's expert SQL programmers.

This book prepares you to master the fundamentals of the SQL programming language using an example-driven method that is easy to understand.

This definitive certification guide provides a disciplined approach to be adopted for successfully clearing the 1Z0-051 SQL Fundamentals I exam, which is the first stepping stone towards attaining the OCA on Oracle Database 11g certification.

Each chapter contains ample practice questions at the end. A full-blown mock test is included for practice so you can test your knowledge and get a feel for the actual exam.

What you will learn from this book

• Get insights into the fundamentals of databases and how they work
• Create and manipulate databases
• Create complex reports by joining data from multiple tables
• Use functions to manipulate data for solving real world problems
• Create database objects from scratch to store the types of data used in businesses today
• Use SQL in application development
• Aggregate data transformation using group functions
• Combine SQL queries

Approach

This book is packed with real word examples. Each major certification topic is covered in a separate chapter, which helps to make understanding of concepts easier. At the end of each chapter, you will find a variety of practice questions to strengthen and test your learning.

You will get a feel for the actual SQL Fundamentals I exam by solving practice papers modeled on it.

Who this book is written for

This book is for anyone who needs the essential skills to pass the Oracle Database SQL Fundamentals I exam and use those skills in daily life as an SQL developer or database administrator

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Application Architecture for WebSphere A Practical Approach to Building WebSphere Ap

Architect IBM® WebSphere® Applications for Maximum Performance, Security, Flexibility, Usability, and Value Successful, high-value WebSphere applications begin with effective architecture. Now, one of IBM’s leading WebSphere and WebSphere Portal architects offers a hands-on, best-practice guide to every facet of defining, planning, and implementing WebSphere application architectures. Joey Bernal shows working architects and teams how to define layered architectural standards that can be used across the entire organization, improving application quality without compromising flexibility.

Bernal begins by illuminating the role of architecture and the responsibilities of the architect in WebSphere applications and SOA environments. Next, he introduces specific architectural techniques for addressing persistence, application performance, security, functionality, user interaction, and much more.

Bernal presents a series of sample architectures drawn from his work with several leading organizations, demonstrating how architectures can evolve to support new layers and changing business requirements. Throughout, his techniques are specific enough to address realistic enterprise challenges, while still sufficiently high-level to be useful in diverse and heterogeneous environments.

Coverage includes

• Choosing persistence frameworks that serve business requirements without excessive complexity

• Avoiding persistence-related problems with performance, security, or application functionality

• Designing and deploying effective middle layers and dependent libraries within WebSphere Application Server

• Using WebSphere mechanisms and architectural techniques to avoid common security attacks such as SQL injection

• Improving performance with WebSphere Application Server caching, including Distributed Maps and Servlet/JSP fragment caching

• Using presentation frameworks to provide fast, robust, and attractive user interaction

• Incorporating portals that provide a standardized framework for merging multiple applications

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