ScalingOracle8i-CreativeCommons

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quadralay WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition 6.0.2"> <meta name="TEMPLATEBASE" content="Dynamic HTML Standard Edition"> <meta name="LASTUPDATED" content="07/25/04 20:53:13"> <link rel="StyleSheet" href="standard.css" type="text/css" media="screen"> <title>scalingoracle8iTOC.html</title> </head> <body background="images/backgrnd.gif"> <table width="331" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/navtocx.gif" width="84" height="23" border="0" alt="TOC"> </td> <td><img src="images/navprevx.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="PREV"> </td> <td><a href="NewForward.html"><img src="images/navnext.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="NEXT"> </a></td> <td><img src="images/navidxx.gif" width="85" height="23" border="0" alt="INDEX"></td> </tr> </table> <p><img src="images/sal_logo.gif" alt="Scale Abilities Ltd Logo"></p> <hr align="left"> <blockquote> <div style="color: #000000; 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margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721604"> </a><a href="NewForward.html#1003434">Welcome!</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721606"> </a><a href="FM.html#999626">Preface</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721608"> </a><a href="FM.html#999626">Who Should Read This Book</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721610"> </a><a href="FM.html#999626">Credits</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721612"> </a><a href="FM.html#999626">Feedback</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721614"> </a><a href="FM.html#999626">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721616"> </a><a href="FM.html#999626">How To Read This Book</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721618"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH01.html#996752">Chapter 1 </a></span>Scaling Concepts<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721620"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">What Is Scaling?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721622"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Speedup</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721624"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Concurrency (Scaleup)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721626"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Latches and Locks</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721628"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Why Lock?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721630"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Things That Need Locking/Latching</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721632"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Waiting on Latches and Locks</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721634"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Design Considerations to Reduce Lock Contention</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721636"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Linked Lists</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721638"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">What Is a Linked List?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721640"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">What Are Linked Lists Used For?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721642"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Optimizing Chain Lengths</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721644"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Hashing</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721646"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">What Is Hashing?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721648"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Caching</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721650"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Cache Fundamentals</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721652"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Memory Hierarchies</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721654"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Cache Reference Patterns</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721656"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">I/O Caching</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721658"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">CPU Cache Concepts</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721660"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721662"> </a><a href="CH01.html#996752">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721664"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Chapter 2 </a></span>Hardware Architectures and I/O Subsystems<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721666"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Introduction to Hardware Architectures</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721668"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">System Interconnects</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721670"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Bus Architecture</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721672"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Direct Memory Access (DMA)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721674"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Cache Coherency</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721676"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Single Processor Architectures (Uniprocessors)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721678"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Advantages</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721680"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Oracle on Uniprocessors</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721682"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Other Disadvantages</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721684"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721686"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721688"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">SMP Advantages</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721690"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Kernel Challenges</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721692"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Oracle on SMP Architectures</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721694"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Shared-Bus Limitations</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721696"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721698"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Point-to-Point SMP</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721700"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Cache Coherency</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721702"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721704"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Clustered SMP</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721706"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Clustering Types</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721708"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721710"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Massively Parallel Processors (MPPs)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721712"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Definition</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721714"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Oracle on MPP Systems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721716"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721718"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Cache Coherent Nonuniform Memory Access (ccNUMA)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721720"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Definition</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721722"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Sequent NUMA-Q 2000</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721724"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">SGI Origin 2000</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721726"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Oracle on NUMA Systems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721728"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721730"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Storage Systems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721732"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">I/O Busses</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721734"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Controllers</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721736"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Disk Drives</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721738"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Disk Drive Sizing</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721740"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Redundancy</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721742"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">RAID Levels</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721744"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">RAID-5</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721746"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Cached Disk Arrays: EMC Symmetrix</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721748"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721750"> </a><a href="CH02.html#1015444">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721752"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Chapter 3 </a></span>Benchmark <br>Concepts and Design<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721754"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Why Develop a Benchmark?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721756"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Capacity Planning</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721758"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Upgrades</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721760"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Platform Changes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721762"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">What Are We Simulating?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721764"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Defining Application Areas</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721766"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Defining the Application Split</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721768"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Careful with Those Assumptions, Eugene</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721770"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Selecting a Development Approach</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721772"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Using Remote Terminal Emulation Software</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721774"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Custom Simulation Development</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721776"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Building a Simulator Using RTE Software</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721778"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Building a Custom Benchmark Suite</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721780"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Programming Environment</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721782"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">When the Application Has Not Been Written</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721784"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">If the Application Exists: Trap and Emulate All SQL Calls</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721786"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Using Tracefiles to Generate a Simulation: <br> An Introduction to </a>dbaman<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721788"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Validate Server-Side System Utilization</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721790"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Building a Multiuser Framework</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721792"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Scale the Simulator</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721794"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Data Problems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721796"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">User Control Problems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721798"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Simpler Methods for Use with </a>dbaman<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721800"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Make It Easy to Run</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721802"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Portability</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721804"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Packaging</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721806"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Start-Up Scripts</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721808"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Automating Information Retrieval at Closedown</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721810"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Define Limitations in Advance</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721812"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">A Benchmark Is Never Perfect</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721814"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Measure the Impact of the Inaccuracies</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721816"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721818"> </a><a href="CH03.html#1010877">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721820"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Chapter 4 </a></span>System/Database Monitoring<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721822"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Why Monitor?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721824"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Proactive Fault Detection</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721826"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Rapid Fault Diagnosis</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721828"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Historical Performance Records</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721830"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Low-Intrusion Techniques</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721832"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Go Easy on the System</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721834"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Avoiding Single-Threaded Resources</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721836"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Introduction to V$ Views</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721838"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">What Are the V$ Views ?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721840"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Accessing the V$ Views</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721842"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Structure of the V$ Views</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721844"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Overhead of Using V$ Views</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721846"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Minimizing Overhead</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721848"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Using dbaman to Optimize Data Collection</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721850"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Defining the Cursors</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721852"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Parsing and Executing the SQL</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721854"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Process the Result Sets</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721856"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Pulling it Together with a Main Loop</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721858"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Processing Statistics</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721860"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Data Transports</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721862"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Alarm Propagation</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721864"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Defining the "Flight Envelope"</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721866"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">What Is a "Flight Envelope"?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721868"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">How Do I Define a Flight Envelope for the System?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721870"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Using Excel Spreadsheets for Data Visualization</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721872"> </a><a href="CH04.html#1017884">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721874"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Chapter 5 </a></span>Physical Oracle<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721876"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721878"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Overview</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721880"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Control Files</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721882"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Datafile Information</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721884"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Operating Information</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721886"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Redo Log Information</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721888"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Log History</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721890"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Backup Information</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721892"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">The INIT.ORA File</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721894"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Rules for init.ora Creation</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721896"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Data Storage</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721898"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Overview: The Physical Picture</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721900"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Blocks: An Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721902"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Block Cleanout</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721904"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Redo Logfiles</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721906"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Key Database Objects</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721908"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Rollback Segments</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721910"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Read-Only Tablespaces</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721912"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Temporary</a> Tablespaces and Temporary Segments<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721914"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Tables</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721916"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Indexes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721918"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Other Database Objects</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721920"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">The Data Dictionary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721922"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721924"> </a><a href="CH05.html#1005175">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721926"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Chapter 6 </a></span>Oracle8 in Operation<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721928"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721930"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">The Oracle Kernel</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721932"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Process Architecture</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721934"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Shadow Processes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721936"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Net8</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721938"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">The SGA Components</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721940"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">High-Level View</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721942"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Fixed Region</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721944"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Variable Region</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721946"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Buffer Cache</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721948"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Operation of the Buffer Cache</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721950"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721952"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Hash Chains</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721954"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">LRU Chains</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721956"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Latch Coverage</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721958"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">CR Versions</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721960"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">DBWR Operation</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721962"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Flowchart Summary of Buffer Cache Operation</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721964"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Shared Pool Structure</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721966"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Shared Pool: The Library Cache</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721968"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721970"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Cursors</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721972"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">The Parsing Mechanism</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721974"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Latch Coverage</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721976"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Other Memory Structures</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721978"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Dictionary Cache</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721980"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Log Buffer</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721982"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Oracle Parallel Server Concepts</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721984"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721986"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721988"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Parallel Cache Management</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721990"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Design Considerations for OPS</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721992"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721994"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Further Reading for OPS</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721996"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">V$</a> Views Exposed<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="721998"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Session-Level Information</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722000"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">V$SESSION_EVENT</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722002"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">System-Level Information</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722004"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722006"> </a><a href="CH06.html#1015581">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722008"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH07.html#996932">Chapter 7 </a></span>Introduction to UNIX<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722010"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">What Is a Kernel?</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722012"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">"That Picture"</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722014"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Execution Modes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722016"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Explicit Kernel Processing (Process Context Kernel Mode)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722018"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Implicit Kernel Processing (System Context Kernel Mode)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722020"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Processes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722022"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">The Process "Table"</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722024"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Process Scheduling</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722026"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Signals</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722028"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Process Lifecycle</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722030"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Memory Management: The Virtual Memory System</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722032"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722034"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Virtual Memory Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722036"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Virtual Memory Hierarchy</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722038"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">The Memory/Disk Hierarchy</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722040"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Implementing the Hierarchy</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722042"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Implications of </a>fork() and exec()<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722044"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722046"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">I/O System</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722048"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Everything Is a File</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722050"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Filesystems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722052"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Raw Disk</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722054"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Filesystems Versus Raw Disk</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722056"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Logical Volume Managers</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722058"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Interprocess Communication (IPC)</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722060"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Pipe Communication</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722062"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">System V IPC</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722064"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">More on System Calls</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722066"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722068"> </a><a href="CH07.html#996932">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722070"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH08.html#996744">Chapter 8 </a></span>Oracle User's <br>Guide to UNIX<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722072"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">Coengineering the Oracle Kernel</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722074"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">VOS Responsibilities</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722076"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">Vendor Coengineering</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722078"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">UNIX Tools</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722080"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">top</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722082"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">Tcl and </a>expect<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722084"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">Korn Shell</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722086"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">awk</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722088"> </a><a href="CH08.html#996744">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722090"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Chapter 9 </a></span>Scalable Transaction Processing<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722092"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Scalable Applications</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722094"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Application Design</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722096"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Scalable SQL</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722098"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Transaction Processing Monitors</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722100"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Purge</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722102"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Tuning Transaction Processing Systems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722104"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Goals for Tuning</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722106"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Where to Tune</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722108"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Tuning Modes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722110"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722112"> </a><a href="CH09.html#1003928">Further Reading</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722114"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH10.html#997209">Chapter 10 </a></span>Pulling It All Together: A Case Study<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722116"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722118"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">Engagement Overview</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722120"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">The Business</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722122"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">Perot Systems Corporation: The IT Partner</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722124"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">The Application</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722126"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">The Technical Solution</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722128"> </a><a href="CH10.html#997209">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722130"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH11.html#997209">Chapter 11 </a></span>Building a <br>Successful Team<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722132"> </a><a href="CH11.html#997209">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722134"> </a><a href="CH11.html#997209">Immediate Team Attributes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722136"> </a><a href="CH11.html#997209">Virtual Team Attributes</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722138"> </a><a href="CH11.html#997209">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722140"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH12.html#998132">Chapter 12 </a></span>Pitfalls<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722142"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Introduction</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722144"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Avoiding Bugs</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722146"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Initial Releases</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722148"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Known Problems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722150"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Bug Diagnosis and Resolution</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722152"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Finding and Fixing Bugs</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722154"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Oracle Parallel Server Problems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722156"> </a><a href="CH12.html#998132">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 61pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -61pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722158"> </a><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; vertical-align: baseline"><a href="CH13.html#997205">Chapter 13 </a></span>Internet Applications and the Future<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722160"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">E-Commerce Systems</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722162"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">The Implications</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722164"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">The Implication for Business Computing</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722166"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">Oracle8</a>i Technology<br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722168"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">Java Integration</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 125pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -96pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722170"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">New Data Services</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722172"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">Future Oracle Releases</a><br> </div> <div style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 88pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -73pt; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline"> <a name="722174"> </a><a href="CH13.html#997205">Chapter Summary</a><br> </div> </blockquote> <hr> <table align="right" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="right"><font size="1"> <a href="http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk"><img src="images/sal_logo.gif" border="0"></a><br> Scale Abilities Ltd<br> http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk<br> Voice: +44 1285 644533<br> <a href="mailto:info@scaleabilities.co.uk">info@scaleabilities.co.uk</a><br> </font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="331" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/navtocx.gif" width="84" height="23" border="0" alt="TOC"> </td> <td><img src="images/navprevx.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="PREV"> </td> <td><a href="NewForward.html"><img src="images/navnext.gif" width="81" height="23" border="0" alt="NEXT"> </a></td> <td><a href="CH13.html"><img src="images/navidx.gif" width="85" height="23" border="0" alt="INDEX"> </a></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>