Book Description

Throughout history, advances in technology have come in spurts. A single great idea can often spur rapid change as the idea takes hold and is propagated, often in totally unexpected directions. Exadata embodies such a change in how we think about and manage relational databases. The key change lies in the concept of offloading SQL processing to the storage layer. That concept is a huge win, and its implementation in the form of Exadata is truly a game changer.

Expert Oracle Exadata will give you a look under the covers at how the combination of hardware and software that comprise Exadata actually work. Authors Kerry Osborne, Randy Johnson, and Tanel Põder share their real-world experience, gained through multiple Exadata implementations with the goal of opening up the internals of the Exadata platform. This book is intended for readers who want to understand what makes the platform tick and for whom—”how” it does what it is does is as important as what it does. By being exposed to the features that are unique to Exadata, you will gain an understanding of the mechanics that will allow you to fully benefit from the advantages that the platform provides.

• Will changes the way you think about managing SQL performance and processing
• Provides a roadmap to laying out the Exadata platform to best support your existing systems
• Dives deeply into the internals, removing the “black box” mystique and showing how Exadata actually works

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There is a lot at stake for administrators taking care of servers, since they house sensitive data like credit cards, social security numbers, medical records, and much more. In Securing SQL Server you will learn about the potential attack vectors that can be used to break into your SQL Server database, and how to protect yourself from these attacks. Written by a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and MCM, you will learn how to properly secure your database, from both internal and external threats. Best practices and specific tricks employed by the author will also be revealed. Learn expert techniques to protect your SQL database environment.

• Author Denny Cherry is a Microsoft MVP and MCM for his expertise in the SQL Server product
• Learn expert techniques to protect your SQL database environment
• Discover how to identify what an intruder accessed or damaged

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Securing the Network
Chapter 2: Database Encryption
Chapter 3: SQL Password Security
Chapter 4: Securing the Instance
Chapter 5: Additional Security for an Internet Facing SQL Server and Application
Chapter 6: SQL Injection Attacks
Chapter 7: Database Backup Security
Chapter 8: Auditing for Security Download Now »

Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Access by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-885: Access 2010, and features:

• Full objective-by-objective review
• Procedures and hands-on practice tasks
• Ready-made, downloadable practice files
• Exam-discount and pre-test offer

Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Access 2010—and earn the credential that proves it!

NOTE: This same content is also available as part of the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word Expert, Excel Expert, Access, & SharePoint Exams (ISBN 9780735657885)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Using the Access Workspace
Chapter 2. Building Tables
Chapter 3. Building Forms
Chapter 4. Creating and Managing Queries
Chapter 5. Designing Reports

About the Author
John Pierce is a writer with Microsoft’s Information Worker New Markets group Download Now »

Book Description

Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups, and many other scenarios.

This guide explains the basics of the document-oriented database and shows you how to set up a Python environment with it. Learn how to read and write to MongoDB, apply idiomatic MongoDB and Python patterns, and use the database with several popular Python web frameworks. You’ll discover how to model your data, write effective queries, and avoid concurrency problems such as race conditions and deadlocks.

The recipes will help you:

• Read, write, count, and sort documents in a MongoDB collection
• Learn how to use the rich MongoDB query language
• Maintain data integrity in replicated/distributed MongoDB environments
• Use embedding to efficiently model your data without joins
• Code defensively to avoid keyerrors and other bugs
• Apply atomic operations to update game scores, billing systems, and more with the fast accounting pattern
• Use MongoDB with the Pylons 1.x, Django, and Pyramid web frameworks

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A hands-on guide to leveraging NoSQL databases

NoSQL databases are an efficient and powerful tool for storing and manipulating vast quantities of data. Most NoSQL databases scale well as data grows. In addition, they are often malleable and flexible enough to accommodate semi-structured and sparse data sets. This comprehensive hands-on guide presents fundamental concepts and practical solutions for getting you ready to use NoSQL databases. Expert author Shashank Tiwari begins with a helpful introduction on the subject of NoSQL, explains its characteristics and typical uses, and looks at where it fits in the application stack. Unique insights help you choose which NoSQL solutions are best for solving your specific data storage needs.

Professional NoSQL:

• Demystifies the concepts that relate to NoSQL databases, including column-family oriented stores, key/value databases, and document databases.
• Delves into installing and configuring a number of NoSQL products and the Hadoop family of products.
• Explains ways of storing, accessing, and querying data in NoSQL databases through examples that use MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, Redis, CouchDB, Google App Engine Datastore and more.
• Looks at architecture and internals.
• Provides guidelines for optimal usage, performance tuning, and scalable configurations.
• Presents a number of tools and utilities relating to NoSQL Download Now »

Book Description

Oracle Identity Management is intended to help organizations quickly and reliably manage information about users on multiple systems and applications. Regulatory Compliance and the desire to expose business applications over the Internet have made Identity and Access management skills particularly desirable in recent times. Oracle Access Manager is a recommended Single Sign-On solution for Fusion Middleware including WebCenter, SOA Suite, Portal, and E-Business Suite; more and more companies are implementing Oracle Access Manager. This book will guide you through the important administrative aspects of Identity Mangement.

Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g for Administrators covers the complete day-to-day task of installing, configuring, and managing Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Identity Manager. This book covers everything an administrator needs during and after an Oracle Identity and Access Management implementation.

This book covers all aspects of the Oracle Identity and Access Management life cycle from administrator’s point of view.

This book starts with an introduction into Oracle’s Identity and Access Management products touching all the products which are part of the Oracle Identity Management Suite. It then covers installation and the configuration of multiple OAM/OIM servers in clusters for resilience and high availability deployment for production deployments, creating Identity and Access Management Schemas, and configuring Identity Manager and Access Manager in detail. Download Now »