Setting Up -- Developing Successful Oracle Applications -- Architecture -- Locking and Concurrency -- Transactions -- Redo and Rollback -- Database Tables -- Indexes -- Import and Export -- Data Loading -- Tuning Strategies and Tools -- Optimizer Plan Stability -- Analytic Functions -- Materialized Views -- Partitioning -- Autonomous Transactions -- Dynamic SQL -- interMedia -- C-Based External Procedures -- Java Stored Procedures -- Using Object Relational Features -- Fine Grained Access Control -- n-Tier Authentication -- Invoker and Definer Rights.Thomas Kyte has a simple philosophy: You can treat Oracle as a black box and shove data inside of it, or you can learn how Oracle works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter, you will see there are few information management problems you cannot solve quickly and elegantly. Kyte has selected the most important features and techniques to discuss in Expert One-on-One Oracle, which he teaches in a proof-by-example manner. He discusses available features, implementing software using these features, and avoiding potential pitfalls.