Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Programming Techniques and Solutions

826 Pages·2010·4.64 MB·English

by  Thomas Kyte

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Kyte Forewords by Jonathan Lewis and Ken Jacobs (aka “Dr. DBA”)
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Expert Oracle Database Architecture:
9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

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Expert Oracle
Database Architecture
Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Programming
Techniques and Solutions
Second Edition

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Thomas Kyte
Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Programming
Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition
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Contents at a Glance

■ Chapter 1: Developing Successful Oracle Applications.......................................1
■ Chapter 2: Architecture Overview......................................................................51
■ Chapter 3: Files..................................................................................................67
■ Chapter 4: Memory Structures.........................................................................121
■ Chapter 5: Oracle Processes............................................................................165
■ Chapter 6: Locking and Latching.....................................................................195
■ Chapter 7: Concurrency and Multi-versioning.................................................243
■ Chapter 8: Transactions...................................................................................267
■ Chapter 9: Redo and Undo................................................................................299
■ Chapter 10: Database Tables...........................................................................345
■ Chapter 11: Indexes.........................................................................................425
■ Chapter 12: Datatypes......................................................................................493
■ Chapter 13: Partitioning...................................................................................557
■ Chapter 14: Parallel Execution.........................................................................621
■ Chapter 15: Data Loading and Unloading.........................................................657
■ Chapter 16: Data Encryption............................................................................709
Index.....................................................................................................................751
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Contents

Contents at a Glance.................................................................................................v
Foreword.............................................................................................................xviii
Foreword from the First Edition............................................................................xix
About the Author..................................................................................................xxii
About the Technical Reviewers...........................................................................xxiii
Acknowledgments...............................................................................................xxiv
Introduction..........................................................................................................xxv
Setting Up Your Environment.............................................................................xxxii

■ Chapter 1: Developing Successful Oracle Applications.......................................1
My Approach....................................................................................................................2
The Black Box Approach..................................................................................................3
How (and How Not) to Develop Database Applications.................................................11
Understanding Oracle Architecture......................................................................................................12
Understanding Concurrency Control.....................................................................................................21
Multi-Versioning...................................................................................................................................25
Database Independence?.....................................................................................................................32
How Do I Make It Run Faster?..............................................................................................................46
The DBA-Developer Relationship..........................................................................................................48
Summary.......................................................................................................................49
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■ Chapter 2: Architecture Overview......................................................................51
Defining Database and Instance....................................................................................52
The SGA and Background Processes....................................................................................................58
Connecting to Oracle.....................................................................................................60
Dedicated Server..................................................................................................................................60
Shared Server.......................................................................................................................................62
Mechanics of Connecting over TCP/IP..................................................................................................63
Summary.......................................................................................................................66
■ Chapter 3: Files..................................................................................................67
Parameter Files..............................................................................................................68
What Are Parameters?..........................................................................................................................69
Legacy init.ora Parameter Files............................................................................................................73
Server Parameter Files (SPFILEs)..................................................................................74
Converting to SPFILEs..........................................................................................................................75
Trace Files.....................................................................................................................82
Requested Trace Files..........................................................................................................................83
Trace Files Generated in Response to Internal Errors..........................................................................88
Trace File Wrap-up...............................................................................................................................93
Alert File........................................................................................................................93
Data Files.......................................................................................................................96
A Brief Review of File System Mechanisms.........................................................................................96
The Storage Hierarchy in an Oracle Database......................................................................................97
Dictionary-Managed and Locally-Managed Tablespaces...................................................................101
Temp Files...................................................................................................................103
Control Files.................................................................................................................105
Redo Log Files.............................................................................................................105
Online Redo Log..................................................................................................................................106
Archived Redo Log..............................................................................................................................108
Password Files.............................................................................................................109
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Change Tracking File...................................................................................................113
Flashback Logs............................................................................................................114
Flashback Database...........................................................................................................................114
Flash Recovery Area...........................................................................................................................115
DMP Files (EXP/IMP Files)............................................................................................116
Data Pump Files...........................................................................................................117
Flat Files......................................................................................................................120
Summary.....................................................................................................................120
■ Chapter 4: Memory Structures.........................................................................121
The Process Global Area and User Global Area...........................................................122
Manual PGA Memory Management....................................................................................................123
Automatic PGA Memory Management................................................................................................129
Choosing Between Manual and Auto Memory Management..............................................................140
PGA and UGA Wrap-up........................................................................................................................142
The System Global Area...............................................................................................142
Fixed SGA...........................................................................................................................................148
Redo Buffer.........................................................................................................................................148
Block Buffer Cache.............................................................................................................................149
Shared Pool........................................................................................................................................156
Large Pool...........................................................................................................................................159
Java Pool............................................................................................................................................160
Streams Pool......................................................................................................................................160
Automatic SGA Memory Management................................................................................................161
Automatic Memory Management.......................................................................................................162
Summary.....................................................................................................................164
■ Chapter 5: Oracle Processes............................................................................165
Server Processes.........................................................................................................166
Dedicated Server Connections...........................................................................................................166
Shared Server Connections................................................................................................................169
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Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP)..................................................................................170
Connections vs. Sessions...................................................................................................................170
Dedicated Server vs. Shared Server vs. DRCP...................................................................................176
Dedicated/Shared Server Wrap-up.....................................................................................................179
Background Processes................................................................................................180
Focused Background Processes.........................................................................................................181
Utility Background Processes.............................................................................................................190
Slave Processes...........................................................................................................193
I/O Slaves............................................................................................................................................193
Pnnn: Parallel Query Execution Servers.............................................................................................193
Summary.....................................................................................................................194
■ Chapter 6: Locking and Latching.....................................................................195
What Are Locks?..........................................................................................................195
Locking Issues.............................................................................................................198
Lost Updates.......................................................................................................................................198
Pessimistic Locking............................................................................................................................199
Optimistic Locking..............................................................................................................................201
Optimistic or Pessimistic Locking?.....................................................................................................207
Blocking..............................................................................................................................................208
Deadlocks...........................................................................................................................................211
Lock Escalation...................................................................................................................................215
Lock Types...................................................................................................................216
DML Locks..........................................................................................................................................216
DDL Locks...........................................................................................................................................225
Latches...............................................................................................................................................230
Mutexes..............................................................................................................................................240
Manual Locking and User-Defined Locks...........................................................................................240
Summary.....................................................................................................................241
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■ Chapter 7: Concurrency and Multi-versioning.................................................243
What Are Concurrency Controls?.................................................................................243
Transaction Isolation Levels........................................................................................244
READ UNCOMMITTED..........................................................................................................................246
READ COMMITTED..............................................................................................................................248
REPEATABLE READ.............................................................................................................................249
SERIALIZABLE.....................................................................................................................................252
READ ONLY.........................................................................................................................................254
Implications of Multi-version Read Consistency..........................................................255
A Common Data Warehousing Technique That Fails..........................................................................255
An Explanation for Higher Than Expected I/O on Hot Tables..............................................................256
Write Consistency........................................................................................................259
Consistent Reads and Current Reads.................................................................................................259
Seeing a Restart.................................................................................................................................262
Why Is a Restart Important to Us?......................................................................................................264
Summary.....................................................................................................................265
■ Chapter 8: Transactions...................................................................................267
Transaction Control Statements..................................................................................267
Atomicity......................................................................................................................269
Statement-Level Atomicity.................................................................................................................269
Procedure-Level Atomicity.................................................................................................................271
Transaction-Level Atomicity...............................................................................................................275
DDL and Atomicity..............................................................................................................................275
Durability.....................................................................................................................275
WRITE Extensions to COMMIT.............................................................................................................276
COMMITS in a Non-Distributed PL/SQL Block....................................................................................277
Integrity Constraints and Transactions........................................................................279
IMMEDIATE Constraints......................................................................................................................279
DEFERRABLE Constraints and Cascading Updates.............................................................................280
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