SAP Database Administration with Oracle from SAP Press

This is one of the best book that every SAP Basis (with Oracle DB) should own. It hold a lot of information about how to manage your Oracle database administration with guidance from SAP expert. Well, because my company using SAP with Oracle DB server so I ask my boss to buy me this book along with several other book.
This book provides administrators with essential information on Oracle databases as well as their interaction with SAP systems. First, you'll learn how best to plan or extend an effective, secure system landscape. The authors show you how to analyze and optimize the performance of hardware, operating system, database, and SAP system as well as which parameters and tools you can use to monitor them. An entire chapter deals with the critical aspects of backup, recovery, and restore, describing different data backup concepts, BR*Tools, the Oracle Recovery Manager, and various backup strategies in detail. In addition, the authors tackle advanced topics, such as Java and SAP NetWeaver BI.

By bridging the gap between basic background knowledge and real-life instruction, this book assists you in solving concrete administration problems, structuring the operation of your system to achieve higher performance, and improving data security and availability.

Highlights

• Interaction between SAP and Oracle
• Planning and Extending the System Landscape
• System Lifecycle: Installation,
• System Maintenance, Upgrades
• Performance: Analysis of Hardware,
• Operating System, Database, SAP
• System, SQL Statements, and much more
• Backup, Recovery, and Restore:
• Data Backup Concepts, BR*Tools,
• Oracle Recovery Manager, Backup Strategies
• Oracle and SAP NetWeaver BI
• Includes a detailed quick-reference card with all of the most important transaction codes

This book costs $89.95. Yeah, worth enough with information you got inside it. This book is authored by Michael Holding, André Faustmann, Ronny Zimmermann, and Gunnar Klein. All of them are SAP certified consultant with great experience.

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SAP Performance Optimization Guide from SAP-Press

This is one of the SAP R3 based best book I ever had. Actually, I don't own it but my company does :D. Dr. Thomas Schneider (author of this book) is highly specialized on SAP system performance optimization for couple years experienced so that he can explained and wrote briefly about how to trace performance bottleneck, how to trace it, how to exclude it, and how to fix it.

Dr. Schneider has write such a great book that gave us SAP Basis to get clearly explanation about what is happenning on our SAP R3 system.
This book describes how you can optimize the performance of your SAP solution and ensure it operates as cost-effectively as possible. Learn how to systematically identify and analyze performance problems, implement appropriate tuning measures, and evaluate their effectiveness. The book covers both technical optimization as well as the monitoring of applications. From hardware, to your ABAP and Java programs, to database access each potential performance bottleneck is highlighted, along with corresponding instructions and valuable tips — provided directly from support professionals at SAP. This fifth edition has been completely revised and updated for SAP NetWeaver 7.0. New sections cover topics related to the analysis of Web Dynpro applications, the SAP J2EE engine, SAP JVM, and SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics.
Here are briefly highlight about this books :

- Monitoring Hardware, Database and SAP Basis
- Workload and Runtime Analyses
- Performance of ABAP and Java Programs, and of the SAP JVM
- Load Distribution
- Interfaces
- SAP GUI, BSPs, Web Dynpro, and Java Applications
- Memory Management
- Table Buffering
- Locks
- Optimizing SQL Statements
- Monitors for MaxDB, DB2, Informix, Oracle, and SQL Serve

The 4th edition of this book has explain about SAP 4.6, SAP R3 4.7, SAP ECC 5. If you bought the new one (5th edition) has included SAP ECC 6 also. I highly recommended that every SAP Basis should have this book. Ask your company to buy it. Not so expensive. Happy reading, guys !!

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McGraw-Hill - SAP R/3 Handbook 3rd Edition

SAP R/3 Handbook which is authored by Jose Antonio Hernandez, Jim Keogh, and Franklin Martinez is one of the best books for Basis. It's give Basis good view and explanation about what is SAP R/3, how to configure each of side such as User Account, Roles and Profiles, System Administration, SAP Parameter, Output Administration, etc.

You can get information about the architecture of SAP Web Application Server, Overview about SAP Netweaver, Change and Transport System, ABAP Engine, User Management and Security on SAPEnvironments, Web Application Server, SAP Performance and Troubleshooting, and about SAP Implemenation, Planning, Operation, and Support.

Jose has organize great knowledge based on his experience implementing SAP system on several company which has enormous and sophisticated business processes. First time I read about this book (which is 2nd edition), I know that Jose is highly experienced on SAP. He explain briefly and clearly.

I highly recommend to all Basis to get this book.

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SAP Labs - System Administration Made Easy

This old books are such great books. Old enough...but still useful. I still recommend this books to SAP Basis newbie. Most of SAP Basis job or task list are mentioned here. Starting from daily task, weekly task, monthly task, annually task, and also accidentally task. Some of this task are :

• User Administration
• System Administration
• Database Administration
• Security Administration
• Job Scheduler
• Backup Operator
• Change Management
• Performance Optimization
  
• etc
  

Database software which is use here are Microsoft Windows and using Microsoft Windows NT (old enough..)

This book also mention about some useful tcode for Basis, some of Basis task list. You can grab this task list and modify it to fit your need. Just add some useful task and remove unnecessary task.