The only advanced Oracle8 skills book on the market. Picks up teaching Oracle skills where Oracle8 DBA Handbook and Tuning Oracle leave off. Gives Oracle8 DBAs the advanced tools necessary to manage and tune their databases regardless of the rate of growth in the environment--a very important scalability skill. Revised to cover all new aspects of Oracle8, including: Partitioned tables, abstract datatypes, index-only tables, objects, and more. The CD-ROM includes code from the book, plus a new version of SQLab--a valuable application tool that help readers practice advanced optimisation techniques.