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This chapter provides an overview of installing Oracle HTML DB and describes issues to consider before installing.

This chapter contains these topics:

• Overview of the Installation Process
• Understanding the Installation Process
• Upgrading from a Previous Version of Oracle HTML DB

Overview of the Installation Process
The installation process consists of four parts:

1. Plan your installation: This chapter offers an overview of the steps required to install Oracle HTML DB.
2. Verify installation requirements: Chapter 2, “Oracle HTML DB Installation Requirements” describes the minimum requirements that your system must meet before you install the software.
3. Install the software: Use the following sections to install Oracle HTML DB: Chapter 3, “Installing the Software” describes how to install the software. Appendix A, “Oracle HTML DB Troubleshooting” provides installation troubleshooting advice.
4. Complete postinstallation tasks: Chapter 4, “Oracle HTML DB Post-in

Understanding the Installation Process
Oracle HTML DB is a browser based development environment that enables non-programmers to create database-centric Web applications. Oracle HTML DB provides developers with the productivity of a desktop database, but with the security, reliability, and performance of the Oracle database.

This manual provides information about Oracle’s data warehousing capabilities. This preface contains these topics:

• Audience
• Organization
• Related Documentation
• Conventions
• Documentation Accessibility

Note: The Oracle Data Warehousing Guide contains information that describes the features and functionality of the Oracle Database Standard Edition, Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and Oracle Database Personal Edition products. These products have the same basic features. However, several advanced features are available only with the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Personal Edition, and some of these are optional. For
example, to create partitioned tables and indexes, you must have the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Personal Edition.

Audience

This guide is intended for database administrators, system administrators, and database application developers who design, maintain, and use data warehouses. To use this document, you need to be familiar with relational database concepts, basic Oracle server concepts, and the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle.

This manual describes the features of the DB Audit Performance Add-on for Microsoft SQL Server, including how to use the install and configure the add-on, use graphical user interface and performance audit and analysis reports.

When to Use the Performance Auditing Add-on

If you are not satisfied with your SQL Server performance, you can add additional CPU or improve other hardware characteristics to boost overall performance. This seems to be obvious, the more CPUs your server has, the faster it can perform. However, the standard edition of SQL Server can support up to 4 CPUs only. For support for more than 4 CPUs, and up to 32 CPUs when using Windows 2000 or 2003 Datacenter Server, you will need to run SQL Server 2000 or 2005 Enterprise Edition.

A cheaper alternative to purchasing expensive hardware and software upgrades is tuning SQL Server configuration and applications and making them run more efficient.

Microsoft’s Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) track for Windows 2000 is the premier certification for computer industry professionals. Covering the core technologies around which Microsoft’s future will be built, the MCSE Windows 2000 program is a powerful credential for career advancement.

This book has been developed to give you the critical skills and knowledge you need to prepare for one of the electives for the MCSE certification program: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft® SQL ServerTM 2000 Enterprise Edition (Exam 70-229).

NOTE:
This exam is also one of the required exams for the Microsoft Certified Database Administrators (MCDBA). We have chosen to focus on the MCSE track as that is by far the most popular of Microsoft’s certification tracks. As of this printing, there were over 400,000 MCSEs, and roughly 20,000 MCDBAs. We will discuss all of the different tracks below.

About this Guide

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a high-performance, in-memory data manager that supports the ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) and JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) interfaces.

This guide is for application developers who use and administer TimesTen. It provides a reference for TimesTen SQL statements, expressions, and functions, including TimesTen SQL extensions.

To work with this guide, you should understand how database systems work. You should also have knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language). See “Background reading” on page 2 if you are not familiar with these interfaces.

Including this guide, the TimesTen documentation set consists of these documents:

• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Installation Guide. Contains information needed to install and configure TimesTen on all supported platforms.
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Introduction. Describes all the available features in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database.

About this Guide

This Guide contains information about developing an application for Facebook, deploying the application on a Morph AppSpace, and adding the application to Facebook.

Overview

Facebook is a social networking Web site, which allows free access to users wanting to join one or more networking groups such as schools, companies, regions, or country of origin. Aside from being a social network, Facebook launched the Facebook platform that provides a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features.

A software developer who wants to deploy an application on the Facebook platform needs two things: an application and a host. Your application must run independently on a host. However, ordinary hosting schemes might not serve your application effectively. As your application requirements change, you have to think about load balancing, high availability, backup, security, redundancy, and a host of other related delivery and management things.