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You're holding in your hands the most comprehensive and effective guide available for the second exam on the Oracle8i DBA track. An outstanding team of Oracle professionals and trainers delivers crystal-clear explanations of every topic covered, highlighting exam-critical concepts and offering hands-on tips that can help you in your real-world DBA career. Throughout, they provide pre-test, exam-style assessment questions, scenario problems, and lab exercises — everything you need to master the material and pass the exam.

Inside, get complete coverage of Architecture and Administration exam objectives
*Get a handle on Oracle8i architecture and server basics
*Create Oracle databases, data dictionary views, and standard packages
*Manage Oracle Instances, tablespaces, and datafiles
*Maintain the control file and redo log files
*Delve into storage structure and relationships
*Take control of rollback segments, tables, and indexes
*Get the scoop on maintaining data integrity
*Discover how toload and reorganize data
*Master Oracle security, from password and resources to users, privileges, and roles
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