Oracle Corporation used to print the preceding quotation from Shakespeare at the beginning of one of its chapters in the database administrator (DBA) manual for an earlier release of the Oracle database (Oracle version 6). I always thought the quote was interesting. If you proceed a little further in the play, you’ll find this quotation: | THE EXPERT S VOICE IN ORACLE Expert Oracle Database 11 g Administration Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of Oracle Database llg. providing all the tools and techniques you need to build and effectitvly manage your Oracle databases Sam Apress Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration Sam R. Alapati Apress Expert Oracle Database 11 g Administration Copyright 2009 by Sam R. Alapati All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 pbk 978-1-4302-1015-3 ISBN-13 electronic 978-1-4302-1016-0 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor Jonathan Gennick Developmental Editor Douglas Pundick Technical Reviewer John Watson Editorial Board Clay Andres Steve Anglin Mark Beckner Ewan Buckingham Tony Campbell Gary Cornell Jonathan Gennick Michelle Lowman Matthew Moodie Jeffrey Pepper Frank Pohlmann Ben Renow-Clarke Dominic Shakeshaft Matt Wade Tom Welsh Project Manager Richard Dal Porto Copy Editor Ami Knox Associate Production Director Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor Laura Cheu Compositors Susan Glinert Stevens Ellie Fountain Proofreader April Eddy Indexer John Collin Cover Designer Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 233 Spring Street 6th Floor New York NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER fax 201-348-4505 e-mail orders-ny@ or visit http . For information on translations please contact Apress directly at .
