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Book Titles
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High Availability: Successful Implementation for the Data-Driven Enterprise |
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In today’s data-driven world, it is essential to understand High Availability concepts, practices, and the impact of HA on your business. With many HA technologies to choose from, striking a balance between benefit and cost is essential to ensuring practicality in an HA investment. Rather than investing time and money in an effort to squeeze as much availability out of a poorly implemented system, companies should wisely invest resources in preplanning an HA solution that suits their business requirements.
PTI has provided expert IT consulting services for over ten years and has witnessed the devastating effects that a poorly chosen and poorly implemented HA solution can have on a business. Using proven IT best practices and evaluations based on your business needs, PTI’s High Availability Planning engineers design fault-tolerant IT infrastructures ensuring the continuity of your business operations and providing the availability, stability, and scalability that your users expect. |
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Database Titles |
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SQL Functions Programmer's Reference
This book is for the developer who needs to retrieve data from a relational database or integrate applications with relational database implementations. The book presents standard SQL functions and covers built-in and user-defined SQL functions. Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, and PostGreSQL implementations are discussed.
"A book for consultants that looks at functions across different platforms with clear coding examples."
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Database Design
This book teaches how to analyze and understand business needs, daily processes, and data requirements. These skills are all necessary to build a well-performing database. Emphasis is placed on logical design to produce the highest-quality database.
"After thumbing through a half-dozen books on data modeling and database design, I finally picked up this book. It is the best intro to data modeling that I've come across yet... Highly recommended for people who want to build Database Analyst skills."
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Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours (editions 1-3)
This book teaches techniques for designing, building, and querying databases efficiently. Each lesson uses a simple approach and builds on the previous to teach the essentials of ANSI SQL. Coverage applies to all major database implementations.
"This is a sound introduction to SQL and is the best quick start guide to the language that I have seen on the market recently."
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Teach Yourself Beginning Databases in 24 Hours
Learn the basic fundamentals of databases, relational databases, and object-oriented databases. This book introduces many beginning database concepts including tables, columns, indexes, data, and queries. Coverage also includes database design, database life cycle, SQL, and database administration.
"After thumbing through a half-dozen books on data modeling and database design, I finally picked up this book. It is the best intro to data modeling that I've come across yet... Highly recommended for people who want to build Database Analyst skills."
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Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (editions 2-4)
This book teaches skills needed to begin programming with SQL. Learn the fundamentals of SQL programming, the new and advanced features, and how to use the latest tools. The book provides industry-leading implementation advice. • Online Edition
"It is both a superior reference book and programmer's guide...Enough cannot be said about this book."
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Oracle Application Server 10g
This book is a focused guide that explains how to deploy J2EE applications on Oracle Application Server 10g. Coverage includes Oracle's J2EE container, OC4J, and various Oracle 10g Application Server features.
"This book is so good, even an Oracle DBA would steal it just to read it!"
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Oracle 11g for Dummies
This nuts-and-bolts guide walks you through the mysteries of Oracle and database administration. You’ll learn how to understand Oracle database architecture, set up and manage an Oracle database, and keep it running in tiptop form. |
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Oracle Development Unleashed
This book covers database and application development in the Oracle environment. It includes techniques for designing applications using SQL, PL/SQL, and other Oracle tools and applications. Oracle SQL and PL/SQL are covered in detail.
"I've browsed many Oracle books and really couldn't find one I liked, until this one... Overall, I would recommend this book to developers and DBAs."
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Oracle 8 Server Unleashed
This book covers all aspects of the Oracle 8 database, from design and development to database administration. |
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Oracle Unleashed 2nd Edition
This book discusses Oracle and its features, applications, and administration. Topics include SQL, PL/SQL, database administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, security implementation, and user management. |
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Oracle DBA on UNIX and Linux
This book explains effective manage of Oracle databases on UNIX and Linux platforms. The core responsibilities of the Oracle DBA are covered in detail.
"The perfect read if you have never used Oracle tools and don't know where to begin. Just as importantly, if you are stuck with installing and maintaining an Oracle database on a Linux system, this book shows you the basics."
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Foreign Translations
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Many of our Oracle, SQL, and database books have been translated into foreign languages and distributed internationally.
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Translations include:
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Japanese
Hebrew
German
Swedish
Czech |
Italian
French
Finnish
Turkish
Dutch
Taiwanese |