Oracle Essentials : Oracle8 and Oracle8I
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Author: Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: B00005UL4W
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 680,715
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Dissapointing
Read the oracle documentation you can find at technet.oracle.com. It is far better. The material here is too elementary. Also, too much time is spent on obscure and rarely used topics at the expense of the 'meat' or oracle.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Review of Oracle Essentials.
A review of Oracle EssentialsOracle Essentials provides a thorough, concise, and above all clear description of how Oracle 8 and 8I work. Oracle Essentials discusses everything from standard data structures to data security to concurrent transaction processing to Web Architecture. Each topic contains invaluable information for the DBA and the data architect. This is not a SQL or PL/SQL programming guide. It is not easy to write a technical book about a wide variety of complex database topics. It is even more difficult to make those topics clear and understandable. The 3 authors (and their editors) have all done a spectacular job. The book was designed to discuss Oracle architecture features. However, this book would be better suited as a graduate level text on the state of database design and Internet architecture. It gives programmers, DBAs, and data warehouse architects details on topics they need to understand to do their jobs better. It also an excellent high-level reference for the occasional topic the IT manager needs to brush up on. I have read 5 Oracle books in the past year. I also read books on Unix, Java, and Perl. This book has been the most valuable.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Oracle Essentials - Does What It Says
If you're looking for an overview of Oracle and how it works - either because your DBA experienced on other products or know some areas of Oracle and want the big picture - this is an excellent starting point. The blurb describes it as 'an invaluable, all-in-one introduction' it lives up to that description The text style is lucid and brief - with useful diagrams and references to relevant views/tables throughout. The bibliography also provides lots of useful areas to follow up. This book doesn't pretend to be the last word on Oracle - it aims to be a starting point - if that's what you're after then you could do much worse than this. If you're already familiar with Oracle and looking for detailed answers to specific problems with your database you probably wont find them here - the clue was in the title!
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