PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA

The newest addition to the series OakTable press, PeopleSoft to Oracle DBA, you teach a variety of techniques to maintain a system PeopleSoft. You will then be able to implement techniques such as indexing, the implementation DDL, managing tablespaces, and fixing low-performing SQL. Author, Kurtz, is an expert and, therefore, provides answers to questions that arise when using PeopleSoft on an Oracle database.

Kurtz's book begins with an architecture overview, then proceeded to BEA Tuxedo, PeopleSoft server applications. Kurtz smooth transitions between chapters that follow, explaining the structures database, connectivity, keys and indexing, PeopleSoft DDL, and tables. Kurtz gives appropriate weight to subjects as well as diagrams, performance measures, monitoring the performance of public services and optimization techniques SQL. And the final chapters provide valuable clues, advanced information on Tuxedo.

PeopleSoft is packaged business application software for large enterprises. This chapter provides an introduction and overview of PeopleSoft, its technology and history. We will take a very high level to discuss some of the major parties that make up today PeopleSoft systems, namely the database (in this case Oracle) that stores application data PeopleSoft and a large part of application code, Tuxedo Application Server, and PeopleTools the integrated development environment, which is used for most aspects of development and administration of PeopleSoft.

We will then pass the overall architecture of a PeopleSoft system and see how it has evolved in the first client / server architecture to the modern world four-tier Internet architecture. Finally, we'll take a look at what all this means for the database administrator (DBA) to maintain a PeopleSoft application, and we will consider the implications it has on relations between developers and database administrators on PeopleSoft. This introduction will bring some of the chapters in their context.

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