Oracle8i Parallel Server

Administration, Deployment, and Performance

Release 2 (8.1.6)

December 1999

Part No. A76970-01

Oracle8i Parallel Server Administration, Deployment, and Performance, Release 2 (8.1.6)

Part No. A76970-01

Primary Author: Mark Bauer.

Contributing Author: Cathy Baird.

Primary Contributors: David Austin, Wilson Chan, and Michael Zoll.

Contributors: Christina Anonuevo, Lance Ashdown, Bill Bridge, Sandra Cheever, Annie Chen, Carol Colrain, Mark Coyle, Sohan Demel, Connie Dialeris, Karl Dias, Anurag Gupta, Deepak Gupta, Mike Hartstein, Andrew Holdsworth, Merrill Holt, Ken Jacobs, Ashok Joshi, Jonathan Klein, Jan Klokkers, Boris Klots, Anjo Kolk, Tirthankar Lahiri, Bill Lee, Lefty Leverenz, Juan Loaiza, Sajjad Masud, Neil Macnaughton, Ravi Mirchandaney, Rita Moran, Kotaro Ono, Kant Patel, Erik Peterson, Mark Porter, Darryl Presley, Brian Quigley, Ann Rhee, Pat Ritto, Roger Sanders, Hari Sankar, Ekrem Soylemez, Vinay Srihari, Bob Thome, Alex Tsukerman, Tak Wang, Graham Wood, and Betty Wu.

Graphic Designer: Valarie Moore.

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