Jonathan Stern used more than 13 years of IT experience in contributing to the original
edition of this book. His background included senior positions in consulting,
systems architecture, and technical sales. Especially useful in his early work on this
book was his in-depth experience with the Oracle database across all major open
systems??™ hardware and operating systems, covering tuning, scaling, parallelism,
Oracle Parallel Server, high availability, data warehousing, and OLTP. He authored
numerous papers and presented at internal and external conferences on topics such
as scaling with Oracle??™s dynamic parallelism and the role of reorganizing segments in
an Oracle database.
Colophon
The animals on the cover of Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g are cicadas.
There are about 1,500 species of cicada. In general, cicadas are large insects with
long thin wings that are perched above an inch-long abdomen. Their heads are also
large and contain three eyes and a piercing and sucking mechanism with which to
extrude sap from trees.
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