Making the Most of This Book

At the beginning of each chapter of Oracle9i DBA JumpStart, you’ll find a list of topics that you can expect to learn about within that chapter.

To help you absorb new material easily, I’ve highlighted important terms and defined them in the margins of the pages. You’ll also find three kinds of notes with supplementary material:

Note

Notes provide extra information and references to related information.

Tip

Tips are insights that help you perform tasks more easily and effectively.

Warning

Warnings let you know about things you should do—or shouldn’t do—as you learn more about what an Oracle DBA’s job is like.

At the end of each chapter, you can test your knowledge of the topics covered by answering the chapter’s review questions. You’ll find the answers to the review questions in Appendix A. Appendix B is a glossary of all the terms that have been introduced throughout the book. Appendix C contains a brief overview of other database platforms and how they might fit into an enterprise’s database infrastructure.