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Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook
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Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook |
Author: Kevin Loney
Published: 2005-03-24 |
List price: $62.99
Our price: $41.08
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Excellent Reference
This book thoroughly describes storage structures, day-to-day tips for installing, maintaining, and upgrading 10g databases. I refer to it often when performing DBA functions. It can also be read as a primer from cover-to-cover to get an excellent understanding of 10g.
 Great book!
This book can't be out of your office! It's an excelent, faster, complete reference that helps you in your every-day Oracle DBA work, It cover from the basic topics to RAC and high-availability configuration in only 708 pages. Obvious, It's a handbook reference and doesn't give you the complete solution for one problem, but if You had been working for 2 or 3 years as DBA, or if You are and OCA or OCP DBA, the book is a great reference for you.
 Forget it - RTFM
This book unfortunately does nothing to expand the body of knowledge beyond putting on paper what you can just as easily find in the standard documentation. I'm sorry I put my money down for this when I have the docs just a click away as I type.
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br /I have tried a few times to use this as a reference, but each time it takes me about 3 pages to hit a deadend because of some question or situation that the book fails to address. In each case I have had to figuring it out for myself from the standard documentation/google etc.
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br /The authors consistently fail to deliver the two things I look for in technical books:
br /(1) provide the insights on "why is it so?" - the explanation, mental models, frameworks that help readers move from just learning syntax to a deeper level of understanding. I want to read and learn from authors who are sufficiently skilled in their field with the powers of introspection and communication, who have put the time and effort to deeply consider a subject before turning their learnings into a book.
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br /(2) supplement the existing body of knowledge with new knowledge or at least a new organisation of knowledge that facilitates learning or understanding.
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br /I have had the same reaction to other titles in the Osborne Oracle Press series; I thought I'd give this a go but now sorry I did. In future there is no place for these books in my shopping cart!
Reference Book!
If you are looking to learn Oracle, don't try to do it with this book alone. This book is great for reference, but to try and understand all that is Oracle requires a different book.
Merely regurgitates Oracle's documentation.
This book merely regurgitates the freely available documentation from Oracle. However, this book is even worse since its space limitations means that the author is forced to be even more cryptic than the already difficult to understand product documentation. I could not find anything useful in this book - the book doesn't explain anything. Nothing at all. Aren't books like these supposed to simplify concepts for nonexperts or beginners? Forget about this book. Download the free documentation and use the money to print that out at Kinko's instead.
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