Best Selling Books by Charles Kim

Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up a guitar and start strumming! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar shows you the basics—photo by photo and note by note. You begin with basic chords and techniques and progress through suspensions, bass runs, hammer-ons, and barre chords. As you learn to read chord charts, tablature, and lead sheets, you can play any number of songs, from rock to folk to country. The chord chart and scale appendices are ready references for use long after you master the basics. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill, chord, or technique is clearly described Detailed color photos demonstrate proper fingering and technique Concise and understandable instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance

The Practical, Authoritative, 360-Degree Technical Guide to Oracle Exadata: From Setup to Administration, Optimization, Tuning, and Troubleshooting The blazingly fast Oracle Exadata Database Machine is being embraced by thousands of large-scale users worldwide: by governments, the military, enterprise organizations, cloud service providers, and anyone who needs extreme performance. Now, Oracle Exadata Expert’s Handbook provides authoritative guidance to running Oracle Exadata with maximum reliability, effectiveness, performance, and efficiency. Six renowned Oracle technology experts have brought together core technical information, experience, best practices, and insider tips in a concise reference. Covering both 11g and 12c versions of Oracle Exadata software, they deliver hands-on coverage of best practices, setup, migration, monitoring, administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Whether you’re an Oracle Exadata DBA, DMA, architect, or manager, you need these insights. Get a 360-degree overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Efficiently deploy RAC within the Oracle Exadata ecosystem Fully leverage Storage Cell’s extraordinary performance, via Offloading, Smart Scans, and Hybrid Columnar Compression Manage Exadata with OEM 12c: perform setup, configuration, asset/target discovery, and day-to-day administration Tune Oracle Exadata for even better performance Perform Exadata Backup/Recovery/DR with RMAN and Data Guard Migrate to Oracle Exadata from other platforms Use Oracle Exadata with the ZFS Storage Appliance Consolidate within the Exadata Database Cloud

Master Oracle Data Guard 11g Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices for configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You will get full details on implementing deployment architectures to address requirements that extend beyond disaster recovery. This invaluable resource also includes a complete set of monitoring scripts available for download. Develop a disaster recovery plan for your Oracle database to meet your organization''s requirements Configure and deploy Oracle Data Guard for your environment Tune and troubleshoot your physical and logical standby databases Implement the Oracle Data Guard Broker management framework Integrate with Oracle Grid Control Monitor your Oracle Data Guard environment Enable read-only services and disaster recovery with Oracle Active Data Guard Configure seamless database and application failover Minimize planned downtime using Oracle Data Guard switchover Handle backup and recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager

The Quintessence from KINGDOM COME takes a trip to Smallville to observe a young Clark Kent, but they''re interrupted when government operatives try to bring him in after discovering his Kryptonian origins.

Plan and Implement Hadoop Virtualization for Maximum Performance, Scalability, and Business Agility Enterprises running Hadoop must absorb rapid changes in big data ecosystems, frameworks, products, and workloads. Virtualized approaches can offer important advantages in speed, flexibility, and elasticity. Now, a world-class team of enterprise virtualization and big data experts guide you through the choices, considerations, and tradeoffs surrounding Hadoop virtualization. The authors help you decide whether to virtualize Hadoop, deploy Hadoop in the cloud, or integrate conventional and virtualized approaches in a blended solution. First, Virtualizing Hadoop reviews big data and Hadoop from the standpoint of the virtualization specialist. The authors demystify MapReduce, YARN, and HDFS and guide you through each stage of Hadoop data management. Next, they turn the tables, introducing big data experts to modern virtualization concepts and best practices. Finally, they bring Hadoop and virtualization together, guiding you through the decisions you’ll face in planning, deploying, provisioning, and managing virtualized Hadoop. From security to multitenancy to day-to-day management, you’ll find reliable answers for choosing your best Hadoop strategy and executing it. Coverage includes the following: • Reviewing the frameworks, products, distributions, use cases, and roles associated with Hadoop • Understanding YARN resource management, HDFS storage, and I/O • Designing data ingestion, movement, and organization for modern enterprise data platforms • Defining SQL engine strategies to meet strict SLAs • Considering security, data isolation, and scheduling for multitenant environments • Deploying Hadoop as a service in the cloud • Reviewing the essential concepts, capabilities, and terminology of virtualization • Applying current best practices, guidelines, and key metrics for Hadoop virtualization • Managing multiple Hadoop frameworks and products as one unified system • Virtualizing master and worker nodes to maximize availability and performance • Installing and configuring Linux for a Hadoop environment

Oracle Database 11g : New Features for DBAs and Developers is a comprehensive, example–laden review of the most significant new features and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation''s flagship database product. Learn what''s new in Oracle that really counts See actual examples and test run output Make sound decisions on new feature adoption Sift the gold from the silt and discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle''s flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years of database administration experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are combined with sound, step–by–step testing and a heart–felt emphasis on what matters in the real–world to help you get the most out of Oracle Database 11g.

Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example–based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of Linux documentation. The book is task–oriented: Look up the task to perform. See the solution. Read up on the details. Get the job done. Takes you directly from problem to solution Covers the “right” mix of Linux user and administration tasks for database administrators Respects your time by being succinct and to–the–point What you’ll learn Execute Linux commands applicable to Oracle Database administration. Write shell scripts to automate critical DBA tasks. Monitor, tune, and optimize a Linux server to run Oracle Database. Perform Linux system administration tasks relevant to Oracle Database. Implement Oracle real application clusters on Linux. Implement Oracle automatic storage management on Linux. Remotely (and securely!) manage Oracle on Linux. Who this book is for Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is a book for Oracle database administrators who want to expertly operate Oracle databases on the Linux operating system. If you’re new to Linux, or are migrating from a Unix platform, or just want detailed solutions for tasks that Oracle DBAs perform on Linux servers, this book is for you.

"The birth of a legend begins in the early summer of 2016. A mysterious voice identifying herself only as Miss Ohara from the star ''Ohara,'' twenty-one light-years away from the earth, appears to the superpowers of the world, with ''killing power'' that can kill any person if anyone refuses her order. Three extraordinary geniuses happened to get together and combined their unique technologies: extra short, electromagnetic killing wave; audiovisual facilities for communicating capability with any spot in the world through ''radar beacon on DNA''; and delivering means by utilizing the theory of ''dark matter'' that pierces through any materials in the universe without leaving any trace at the speed of light. Not by armies and bombs and political twist, but with the above technologies, the three geniuses wrote the ''Super Constitution'' and ordered the three presidents of Russia, China, and the U.S., to dismantle the weapons of mass destruction and to establish the Global Government under a single sovereignty of the earth, from behind nowhere. While they were playing cat and mouse with their quarries, the process of globalization for the people of the world had made steady progress according to the Super Constitution, reshuffling the unit of nation of the world and disarming every nation''s armed forces under the Global Government of the most ideal-democratic system"--Page 4 of cover.

Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs, 2nd Edition is an example–based book on managing Oracle Database under Linux and Solaris. The book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of operating-system documentation. What this book provides instead is task-oriented coverage designed around the needs of the Oracle Database Administrator. Find the right chapter. Look up the task to perform. See the solution. Implement the solution straight away in your own environment. Get the job done. New in this edition is coverage of Oracle''s own Solaris operating system. Oracle Corporation has been working diligently to bring commonality between Solaris and and Linux, and this book takes advantage of those efforts to provide task-oriented solutions that work on common distributions of Linux such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux while also accommodating the growing numberof Oracle Solaris customers. Examples in the book match the tasks DBAs perform daily, even hourly. Solutions come first in the book, but alway are followed by close explanations of the details. Database administrators won''t go wrong with Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs. It''s the book to buy if you''re after clear and reliable examples to help in getting the job done, and getting home to your family. Takes you directly from problem to solution Covers the "right" mix of operating-system tasks for database administrators Respects your time by being succinct and to–the–point Includes coverage of Solaris in addition to common Linux distributions What You Will Learn Execute Linux and Solaris commands applicable to Oracle Database. Automate critical DBA tasks via operating-system shell scripts. Monitor, tune, and optimize Linux and Solaris servers for Oracle. Setup a VirtualBox environment for the Oracle database. Perform system administration tasks relevant to Oracle Database. Remotely (and securely!) manage Oracle on Linux and Solaris. Who This Book Is For Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs is a book for Oracle database administrators who want to expertly operate Oracle databases on the Linux and Solaris operating systems. If you’re new to Linux and Solaris and can benefit from detailed examples showing how to perform tasks that Oracle DBAs perform on Linux and Solaris servers, then this book is what you need to help you get the job done, and get home on time.

"Our Worlds at War," Part 9. A sizzling special reveals the secrets behind the war that will shake the DC Universe! Learn how the destructive force known as Imperiex began to wreak havoc on untold numbers of worlds and discover the menace of the Earthbound despot known as General. Plus, the D.E.O.''s Agent Chase explores Earth''s readiness for battle and Profile Pages focus on Earth''s allies and enemies, as well as the incredible technology that will be used in the fight for survival.

Go trick-or-treating with three Looney ghost stories! Bugs and Daffy find a UFO; Sylvester checks into a horror hotel; and, the whole crew dresses up as you-know-who in "Tazzy-Doo, Where Are You?"

The limited series returning one of the DC Universe''s most powerful heroines reaches its epic conclusion! It''s the Teen Titans and the Outsiders against the power of the Titans of MythÑand Donna Troy must choose sides for once and for all!

Tweety Bird flies circles around Sylvester!

The hunt is on! Who will get the rabbit? Featuring three favorites: Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd.

An Old West-style amusement park gets a little too real when visitors Elmer and Daffy get into trouble with park employees-or are they?-Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil! ItÕs the ÒWest, Whirled!Ó

Charles Kim has explored its meaning from the point of Jesus. In this series of writings, he seeks to show how Jesus used and valued the Bible in his own life and ministry. In teaching the crowds and the Pharisees and his disciples Jesus used such phrases as: "Haven''t you read¿", "it is written¿" Jesus made imaginative references to Jonah and to the donkey Jesus rode, showing how Jesus fulfilled Scripture. Jesus rebuked the Sadducees for not knowing Scripture or the Power of God. He challenged the Pharisees to study the Bible more deeply-"Go and find what this means¿" Jesus made it clear that he had not come to do away with the law but to fulfill it. May we come to know Jesus better as read these writings and think about how Jesus used and obeyed the Bible in his teaching and in his life. - By Sarah Barry, General Director Emeritus

"This book is far more than a personal memoir. It is a carefully lived and thoughtfully interpreted life, offered to readers with honesty, humility, and hope¿ For readers who already have faith, this book strengthens their confidence in the journey of belief; for those who do not yet believe, it gently and respectfully invites them to consider faith as a meaningful and life-giving way of understanding their own lives. I" -Moses Junki- Chung "The author does not claim an easy or flawless path; instead, he shows how faith gradually weaves disparate experiences into a single, meaningful trajectory. The tone remains strikingly positive-not because pain is ignored, but because it is interpreted through hope." -Moses Junki Chung "Through these stories, readers see not human achievement, but God''s sovereign hand guiding His servant step by step." - Jacob Lee