Designing Large-Scale LANs --This complete guide to top-down, vendor-neutral network design helps administrators and designers choose effective and cost-efficient network solutions that fit their organization's particular needs. Everything from network reliability, routing and switching, and virtual LANs to Internet protocols, security, and bandwidth is discussed. Specific proprietary technologies such as Cisco's IOS and Novell's IPX are also analyzed in detail. If you're designing a large-scale network and need expert advice and guidance, this book has all the answers. Sample Chapter 3, Design Types, is available online.

Oracle SQL Tuning Pocket Reference provides Oracle database administrators with solutions to common problems that occur when tuning SQL statements. DBAs will find tips for dealing with both the rule-based and cost-based optimizers, discussions on the use of the DBMS_STATS package to manage database statistics, and information on the use of outlines to specify execution plans for SQL statements in third- party applications that you can't otherwise modify--all in this concise reference. Sample Excerpt, The SQL Optimizers, is available online.

Create an O'Reilly Cover--Here is one reader's tool for creating your own O'Reilly-style book cover images, along with some of the creative parodies we've received in the past. Read all about it in the latest from letters.oreilly.com.

Java RMI contains a wealth of design and implementation tips that will improve your remote method invocation (RMI) code. This book provides Java developers with strategies for working with the RMI registry, serialization, sockets and socket factories, HTTP tunneling, distributed garbage collection, JNDI, CORBA, and much more. Java RMI brings new developers up to speed on using RMI for distributed programming, while experienced programmers will find valuable RMI knowledge for constructing their own enterprise and distributed systems. Sample Chapter 10, Serialization, is available online.

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics --With its highly developed capacity to detect patterns in data, Perl has become the language of choice for biological data analysis. This book shows the nonprogramming biologist how to use Perl and how to apply the language to bioinformatics. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular problem or class of problems, so biologists and programmers finish the book with a solid understanding of Perl basics, a collection of programs for tasks such as parsing BLAST and GenBank, and the skills to tackle more advanced bioinformatics programming. Sample Chapter 10, GenBank, is available online.

Perl for Web Site Management is not a book about learning Perl; it is about learning to use Perl to write CGI scripts, incorporate search engines, convert multiple text files to HTML, monitor log files, and track visitors--all the daily Web chores that can be done much more easily and efficiently with Perl. This book shows Web developers and designers how to stop using clunky tools, editing files tediously by hand, or relying on programmers and system administrators to do the more difficult tasks. Sample Chapter 8, Parsing Web Access Logs, is available online.