As Published In November/December 2004

Vendor News

In This Issue:

Quest Software
Yosemite Technologies and Exabyte
Broadbeam
Book Beat

Quest Software Upgrades Toad

Yosemite and Exabyte Team for Oracle Backup and Recovery

Broadbeam Launches Middleware for Making Applications Mobile

Broadbeam has introduced MSS Smart IP 3.0, which allows existing applications to run more effectively and efficiently over a variety of wireless networks. By synchronizing Oracle9i Lite databases with Oracle databases, MSS Smart IP can reduce data-transmission time by 30 percent for a small database and 90 percent for a large one.

MSS Smart IP optimizes applications in three ways: First, it reduces the amount of data the application sends and receives over the wireless network; intelligent protocol agents (IPAs) decrease the amount of data further for specific applications or protocols. Second, its virtual IP-address technology enables server-side applications to securely push data to clients. Finally, MSS IntelliSwitching—a component of Broadbeam's Uni-Fi Networking Initiative—automatically connects and seamlessly switches between Wi-Fi and wireless WANs, with application persistence.

Security is provided in one of two ways: Enterprises can use their existing virtual private network (VPN) scheme or can employ MSS Smart IP's system, which uses AES encryption and LDAP/RADIUS user authentication. MSS Smart IP's method provides security equivalent to a corporate VPN's but is designed for wireless environments.

Book Beat Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning By Richmond Shee, Kirtikumar Deshpande, and K. Gopalakrishnan McGraw-Hill/Osborne's Oracle Press ISBN: 007222729X This new book by authors Shee, Deshpande, and Gopalakrishnan explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint and solve core problems and bottlenecks and increase productivity exponentially. Using this text, you'll learn how to troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. The book presents careful guidance for interpreting common I/O wait events, interpreting lock-related wait events, and interpreting common latency-related wait events, including invaluable information for interpreting wait events in an Oracle Real Application Clusters environment. The book concludes with Oracle 10g-specific information, making it a critical companion for any Oracle DBA planning to migrate to Oracle 10g. Mastering Oracle SQL By Sanjay Mishra and Alan Beaulieu O'Reilly ISBN: 0596006322 According to authors Mishra and Beaulieu, few database administrators truly master SQL, an error they hope to correct with their book on using SQL in the context of Oracle. The book provides all of the basics you'd expect to find in an introductory text on SQL, but because the information is expertly presented with the Oracle DBA in mind, those same DBAs will find this an invaluable text. The authors focus on the areas in which Oracle Database excels, including regular expressions, inter-row calculations, recursive queries, analytic and advanced GROUP BY functions, and the SQL/XML standard. The authors provide real-world examples that serve to explain the SQL concepts and uses presented in the book3. A key feature of the book is its differentiation of SQL features for the various releases of Oracle Database. The book, updated for Oracle 10g, points out new SQL features found only in Oracle9i and Oracle 10g. Browse for these and other Oracle books at amazon.com/oracle.