Oracle Database Administrator's Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2)
E25494-02
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Primary Author: Steve Fogel
Contributing Author: Caroline Johnston, Sheila Moore, Tony Morales, Padmaja Potineni, Randy Urbano,
Lance Ashdown, Janis Greenberg
Contributors: D. Austin, B. Baddepudi, H. Baer, C. Baird, M. Bauer, E. Belden, A. Chaudhry, J. Creighton,
S. Datta, M. Dilman, J. Draaijer, M. Fallen, A. Ganesh, GP Gongloor, V. Goorah, S. Gupta, W. Hodak, P. Huey,
C. Iyer, B. Khaladkar, B. Krishnan, V. Krishnaswamy, B. Kuchibhotla, S. Kumar, V. Kumar, P. Lane, A. Lee, B.
Lee, S. K. Lee, C. Lei, Y. Li, I. Listvinsky, B. Llewellyn, B. Lundhild, S. Lynn, R. Mani, V. Marwah, C.
McGregor, M. Minhas, K. Mohan, V. Moore, N. Mukherjee, S. Muthulingam, G. Ngai, A. Raghavan, M.
Ramacher, R. Ramkissoon, Y. Sarig, S. Shankar, B. Sinha, V. Srihari, D. Steiner, J. Stern, M. Stewart, M.
Subramaniam, A. Tran, A. Tsukerman, K. Umamageswaran, E. Voss, D. M. Wong, P. Youn, W. Zhang
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