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Amazon, a leader in full-text book searching, introduced a ?search
inside the book? feature back in 2004. Now, Amazon has introduced
?Statistically Improbable Phrases? (SIP), a great tool for finding
Oracle information:
For example, viewing the
Oracle 10g Grid book by (Mike Ault and Madhu Tumma), we now see
a SIP section:
Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn
more)
global cache null,
vendor clusterware,
global cache current blocks,
portable clusterware,
recovering instance,
global cache convert,
server parameter file,
srvctl add,
local buffer cache,
shared storage unit,
global cache service processes,
single instance database,
shared raw device,
master free list,
parallel execution servers,
dictionary cache locks,
global lock async,
tablespace transport,
srvctl start,
undo tablespace,
connect time failover,
acquisition interrupt,
raw logical volumes,
cache transfer,
smallfile tablespace
Clicking on any of these hyperlinks locate the phrase within the
book, and best of all, other books that contain the phrase. For
example, here we click on the link for ?master
free list? and we see a list of books that contain this
information:
"master free list" appears in these books:
Learn more about
Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs)
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on Page 346:
"... each segment, there is a segment header. The segment header
contains a list of blocks with free space, called the master
free list. Blocks are removed from the master free list
when the free space in those blocks becomes less than that
specified ..."
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on Page 347:
"... Segment Header Data Block Data Block Data Block User User
User Contention for a Master Free list Process III
Process Process Using Multiple Process Free Lists Fig. 8.4
Multiple Process Free Lists in the Segment Header The ..."
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on Page 445:
"... each segment, there is a segment header. The segment header
contains a list of blocks with free space, called the master
free list. Blocks are removed from the master free list
when the free space in those blocks becomes less than UNDO
Management ..."
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on Page 446:
"... that specified by the pctfree storage parameter. Blocks are
added back to the master free list when their used space
falls below the threshold specified by the paused storage
parameter. The master free list is accessed ..."
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on Page 447:
"... Segment Header Data Block Data Block Data Block' Master
Free List L process free list J ?User User User Contention
for a Master Free list Process Process Process Using
Multiple ..."
This new SIP tool is a great way to evaluate Oracle books and locate
Oracle technical information.
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More than ever before computer professional are
expected to abide by the bewildering rules of professional
courtesy and etiquette. Don Burleson has written a hilarious
and educational treatise on good manners for the Oracle
professional:
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