Audience
The audience for this book is composed of three specific groups:
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Database Administrators who will use the book to:
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Create and maintain databases.
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Create, modify, and revoke user privileges.
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Tune database performance.
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Perform installation and setup of servers and clients.
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Application developers who will use the book to:
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Manage database connections and set up data sources.
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Create queries to draw information from the database.
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Tune database queries.
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Develop application business logic.
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End users who will use the book to:
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Connect to databases.
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Call stored procedures.
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Issue queries.
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Understand error messages.