PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA [electronic resource] /
Kurtz, David.author.
PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA, Second Edition stands on the boundary between the PeopleSoft application and the Oracle database. This new edition of David Kurtz's book is freshly revised, showing how to tame the beast and manage Oracle successfully in a PeopleSoft environment. You'll learn about PeopleSoft's Internet architecture and its use of Oracle's Tuxedo Application Server. You'll find full coverage of key database issues such as indexing, connectivity, and tablespace usage as they apply to PeopleSoft. Kurtz also provides some of the best advice and information to be found anywhere on managing and troubleshooting performance issues in a PeopleSoft environment. The solid coverage of performance troubleshooting is enough by itself to make PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA a must-have book for any Oracle Database administrator working in support of a PeopleSoft environment. Explains PeopleSoft's technical architecture as it relates to Oracle Database Demonstrates how to instrument and measure the performance of PeopleSoft Provides techniques to troubleshoot and resolve performance problems.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Author's Preface to the Second Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who Should Read This Book?; What Does This Book Cover?; Software Versions; Other Resources; Online Resources for This Book; Contacting the Author; CHAPTER 1 An Overview; What Is PeopleSoft?; Components of a PeopleSoft System; The Database; Tuxedo Application Server; PeopleTools; Evolution of the PeopleSoft Architecture; Single-Tier Monolithic Mainframe Architecture
Two-Tier Client/Server ArchitectureThree-Tier Application Server Architecture; Four-Tier Internet Architecture; Release History; Component Connectivity; Developing and Administering PeopleSoft Systems; The Developer; The DBA; Relationship Between the Developer and DBA; Summary; CHAPTER 2 BEA Tuxedo: PeopleSoft'sApplication Server Technology; What Is Tuxedo?; The Simple Application Server; The Simple Client; The Simple Server; The Simple Tuxedo Domain; Anatomy of the Application Server; Processes, Memory, and Messages; IPC Resources; tmadmin and ipcs; PIA Servlets; Integration Broker; Summary
CHAPTER 3 Database ConnectivityPeopleSoft Database versus Oracle Database; Oracle Database Users; Owner ID (SYSADM); Connect ID (PEOPLE); PS Schema; Oracle Database Roles; PSUSER Role; PSADMIN Role; Signing On to a PeopleSoft 8 Database; Making the Initial Connection; Using Direct Shared Memory Connections (UseLocalOracleDB); Determining the PeopleSoft Schema; Checking the PeopleTools Release; Checking the Operator Password; Obtaining the Access Password; Reconnecting as Access ID; Using PeopleSoft Access Profiles and Oracle Resource Profiles; PeopleSoft Support for Oracle Active Data Guard
Connecting Third-Party ApplicationsCrystal Reports; SQR Reports; Changing Database Passwords; Connect ID Password; Owner ID Password; Summary; CHAPTER 4 PeopleSoft Database Structure: ATale of Two Data Dictionaries; Application and PeopleTools Tables; Two Data Dictionaries; PSRECDEFN: Record Definition; The USEEDIT Field; PSRECFIELD: Record Field Definition; PSDBFIELD: Field Definition; Field Types and Lengths; Unicode in PeopleSoft; Unicode from PeopleTools 8.48 and Application Version 9; Unicode in Application Version 8.x; PSSQLDEFN: Definition of SQL Objects; PSSQLTEXTDEFN
PSINDEXDEFN: Index DefinitionPSKEYDEFN: Index definition; Recursive PeopleTools SQL; Version Numbers and Caching; Component Definition; Search Record; Case-Insensitive Searching; Component Pages; Component PeopleCode; Page Definition; Page Fields; Record Definition; Field Definitions; Subrecords; Field Labels; Record DDL; Subrecord Definition; Application SQL; Data Dictionary Synchronization; DDL Changes; Column Difference Audit Script; Summary; CHAPTER 5 Keys and Indexing; What Is the Purpose of an Index?; What Is a Constraint?; What Is the Purpose of a Unique Constraint?
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PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA, Second Edition stands on the boundary between the PeopleSoft application and the Oracle database. This new edition of David Kurtz's book is freshly revised, showing how to tame the beast and manage Oracle successfully in a PeopleSoft environment. You'll learn about PeopleSoft's Internet architecture and its use of Oracle's Tuxedo Application Server. You'll find full coverage of key database issues such as indexing, connectivity, and tablespace usage as they apply to PeopleSoft. Kurtz also provides some of the best advice and information to be found anywhere on managing and troubleshooting performance issues in a PeopleSoft environment. The solid coverage of performance troubleshooting is enough by itself to make PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA a must-have book for any Oracle Database administrator working in support of a PeopleSoft environment. Explains PeopleSoft's technical architecture as it relates to Oracle Database Demonstrates how to instrument and measure the performance of PeopleSoft Provides techniques to troubleshoot and resolve performance problems.
Oracle (Computer file).
Database management.
Database Management.