Sams Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days shows you the basics of using and administrating an Oracle database. Key topics include installing Oracle, planning the database, how to administer users, and how to manage processes. Also covered are administering logs, control files, datafiles, and tablespaces, building tables and views, using indexes and clusters, and security. Learn effective backup techniques, how to recover the database, administering Oracle replication, tuning and optimizing, administering the Oracle Web Server, and Advanced Oracle Options.