Download or read book Oracle Internals: An Introduction written by Steve Adams and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 1999-10-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Oracle8i, release 8.1, this concise book contains detailed, hard-to-find information about Oracle internals (data structures, algorithms, hidden parameters, and undocumented system statistics). Main topics include waits, latches, locks (including instance locks used in parallel server environments) and memory use and management.