Troubleshoot, diagnose, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This exclusive Oracle Press guide explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface (OWI) to quickly pinpoint—and solve—core problems and bottlenecks and increase productivity exponentially. Get...

Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach uses the methods of literary detectives such as Sherlock Holmes, the techniques of mathematical problem solving, the results of research into the cognitive psychology of human error, the root cause analyses of safety experts, the compiler analyses of computer science, and the...

There are two main factors driving increased usage of handheld devices in the enterprise. The first is the ever-decreasing cost of hardware. In the week that I write this, Dell is launching its first Pocket PC at a price that is intended to undercut rivals, Hewlett Packard has announced new low-end and high-end iPaqs, and...

So you’re ready to improve your processes and products and satisfy your customers through Six Sigma—but you’re not looking forward to navigating complicated statistics in order to get results. Now, Warren Brussee, a veteran Six Sigma manager who helped his teams generate millions of dollars in savings, explains how to use...

Do you consider yourself to be an “idiot” or a “dummy”? I certainly hope not! So why do some programming books treat you as if you are? They start from scratch and explain in excruciating detail how to make comments, declare variables, and build For loops. That may make sense if you’ve never programmed before,...

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The Linux® Kernel Primer is the definitive guide to Linux kernel programming. The authors' unique top-down approach makes kernel programming easier to understand by systematically tracing functionality from user space into the kernel and carefully associating kernel internals with...

While there are numerous sources of information and documentation detailing every feature you can implement in a Cisco network and the commands needed to enable those features, the breadth and depth of this data makes it difficult to find the exact information you want, to call up the information quickly, or to carry it with...

• Introduction to relational database concepts
• Using basic SQL *Plus and iSQL *Plus commands
• Understanding Oracle database functions
• Using multiple tables...