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<H1><FONT COLOR="#000077">Teach Yourself Oracle 8 In 21 Days</FONT></H1>
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<H1><FONT COLOR="#000077">Foreword</FONT></H1>
<P>"Enabling the information age" is the slogan upon which Oracle is founded,
but it is more than a slogan to engineers who dedicate their knowledge and experience
to the task of delivering this information with accuracy and speed. In this age of
information, just getting the data is not enough. The data that is so vital to business
must be dependable, accurate, and delivered as quickly as possible.</P>
<P>Two such engineers I have worked with in this endeavor are Edward T. Whalen and
Steve Adrien DeLuca. Edward has won his mastery in the field of performance benchmarks
and system tuning. A former employee of COMPAQ Computers and currently CEO of Performance
Tuning Corp., Edward has held many benchmark records for the highest degree of performance
from the Transaction Processing Performance Council, which is responsible for creating
and maintaining industry-standard benchmarks. Edward has also published a book on
Oracle tuning, which has given him well-deserved notoriety.</P>
<P>Steve is an Architect Engineer in the COMPAQ products division of Oracle Corporation.
Steve holds the distinction of being the co-inventor of the Oracle System Sizer (patent
pending), which has won him much acclaim in the field of sizing and capacity planning.</P>
<P>Together, Edward and Steve have delivered lectures in the field of performance
tuning, sizing, and capacity planning to audiences over the world. They have also
performed benchmarks for such customers as Boeing Aircraft with more than satisfactory
results. It is only natural that they would collaborate on this book. I look forward
to working with Edward and Steve for many years to come, breaking new ground in the
field of performance.</P>
<P>Richard French Vice President Enterprise Platforms Division Oracle Corporation
<H1><FONT COLOR="#000077">Acknowledgments</FONT></H1>
<H3><FONT COLOR="#000077">Edward Whalen</FONT></H3>
<P>Writing the acknowledgments for a book is difficult; I owe my thanks not only
to those who worked on the book itself, but to those friends and family who supported
and encouraged me to move the book forward. I am always afraid I have missed someone;
if I have, I apologize.</P>
<P>I would like to thank Rosemarie Graham, Steve Straiger, Marla Reece-Hall, Kim
Hannel, and especially Kate Shoup Welsh at Sams Publishing for their help in the
development of the book. The editorial staff at Sams is excellent and absolutely
great to work with. Without their help, this book could not have been published.
I would also like to thank Kelly Leigh for doing a great job of technical editing.
Lastly I would like to thank Erika Millen for creating the index for this book.</P>
<P>I would especially like to thank my good friend Steve DeLuca for his participation
in this book. I would also like to thank Richard French for contributing a foreword
to this book.</P>
<P>I would like to thank not only the people who have directly influenced this book
and helped make it a reality, but those who have indirectly influenced it as well.
These people are Bob Nissen, Thomas Cox, Keith Yedlin, Mike Brey, and Eric Speed.
I would also like to thank some of the people who have influenced me in my endeavors
and have taught me over the years: Lorna Livingtree and Brent Schroeder. Some other
people who have been inspired me are Marci Frohock and Bryon Georgson.</P>
<P>In my previous book I failed to mention someone without whom none of this would
be possible: Larry Ellison. I apologize. Larry Ellison's hard work made Oracle what
it is today.</P>
<P>Writing a book involves a lot of time and effort. I would like to thank my wife,
Felicia, for putting up with the sacrifices necessary to write this book as well
as for her help in finishing the book.
<H3><FONT COLOR="#000077">Steve Adrien DeLuca</FONT></H3>
<P>I would like to take this opportunity to thank the great management staff at Oracle:
people like Jerry Baker, Gary Bloom, Jerry Held, Richard French, Bonnie Crater, Sylvia
Cummings, Charles Weiss, David Appelbaum, and of course, Larry Ellison, for letting
me develop my ideas; talented database engineers such as Andrew Rist for co-inventing
Oracle System Sizer (patent pending) with me; and Mike Brey, Bob Nissen, Ethan Berry,
John Viguerie, Jose Sanchez, Jeff Plank, Theresa Burghgraef, Fred Dambrosio, Bryon
Georgson, Tamar Sofer-Rothenberg, Vicky Owens, and others too numerous to mention
for helping me prove the theories.</P>
<P>What can one say about close friends such as Edward Whalen, who invited me to
contribute to this writing, or family like my wife, Jean, and daughter Tina, who
have always been there to support me. A special thanks to the folks at COMPAQ Computer
such as Ronnie Ward, Keith Carlson, Douglas Mackbee, and Mike Nikolaiev, for letting
me tinker around their labs.
<H1><FONT COLOR="#000077">About the Authors</FONT></H1>
<H2><FONT COLOR="#000077">Lead Author</FONT></H2>
<P><B>Edward Whalen</B> is president and CEO of Performance Tuning Corporation (<A
HREF="http://www.perftuning.com"><TT>www.perftuning.com</TT></A>), a consulting company
specializing in database performance, administration, and backup/recovery solutions.
He has had extensive experience in database system design and tuning for optimal
performance. Mr. Whalen has also written another Sams book, <I>Oracle Performance
Tuning and Optimization</I>. He is recognized as a leader in Oracle performance tuning
and optimization.</P>
<P>He is a representative on the Transaction Processing Performance Council, which
is responsible for creating and maintaining industry-standard database benchmarks.
As part of this council, he has participated in the development of several TPC benchmarks.</P>
<P>Mr. Whalen currently resides in Cypress, Texas, with his wife, Felicia; their
Border collies, Pierce (Dash), Chip, Teller, and Ty; their Great Pyrenees, Shasta;
and their cats. He is active in many dog-related activities, including dog agility.
He is also a certified EMT and volunteers with the local emergency ambulance service,
Cypress Creek EMS, where he is a regular on Medic-53, Medic-54, and Medic-55.
<H2><FONT COLOR="#000077">Contributing Author</FONT></H2>
<P><B>Steve Adrien DeLuca</B> has been an architect engineer developing performance
tools at Oracle Corporation since 1994. Mr. DeLuca co-invented the Oracle System
Sizer (patent pending) and has been developing performance tools and lecturing about
them around the world since 1984. Prior to working at Oracle Corporation, Mr. DeLuca
served as a performance engineer specializing in sizing and capacity planning for
companies such as DEC, Tandem, and Apple, and for organizations such as the U.S.
Air Force.
<H2><FONT COLOR="#000077">Tell Us What You Think!</FONT></H2>
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what areas you'd like to see us publish in, and any other words of wisdom you're
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