Rating: 
Summary: Good reference material
Review: Good for reference, obviously I would not enjoy to sit and
read this book in a setting. But if you want to learn about
individual subjects and have a guide book is great.
Rating: 
Summary: explanations far too short USELESS AVOID
Review: I have 2y. experience on Ora8i & 9i.2 on windows 2000 and winXP german platform. Bought tons of those fat & bulky Oracle books of all these gurus (Loney, Urmann, Trezzo, ...) including 9i reference books. A lot of money thrown out!
Oracle (9i) Universal Installer and oracle Enterprise Manager got more foolproof, I recommend to install w/o a book first & let the wizzard do the work. Oracle 10g should be even more "adaptive".
We had bought the official german translation Oracle Press/Hanser for a migration project from Sybase Adaptive Anywhere 7.0.4 to Oracle 9i.2. well, maybe everything is covered, but explanations are FAR too short.
example 1: the new feature pfile or spfile instead of init<...>.ora
This is not even a reference book! Just a waste of 2.36 inch (6cm) space on your bookshelf to say it straight.
example 2: book index lacks the keywords you are looking for
At least the book (german edition) is long lasting, nicely layouted and printed on decent quality paper. It doesn't fall apart as other Oracle paperbacks from Osborne/McGrawHill. Two stars for that.
All in all, if you are in deep trouble with your Oracle Database don't hope for help of these authors/gurus, i.e. no e-mail support.
Better get a free sign up to Technet (OTN) and save the money for a TOAD license. Or buy a book from Mike Ault.
Last but not least it's an outdated book (as of Sep 2004), Oracle 10g is out. it's a fast paced world.
Rating: 
Summary: About time
Review: I was wondering how long it would be before this book was out. It sold clean off the shelves at OpenWorld in San Francisco, which was very disappointing for me. The chapter on RMAN was much needed. As usual the rest of the book has what you need as a DBA. Get this book!
Rating:
Summary: Great coverage of 9i features
Review: I'm a beginner DBA, and this book had what I needed to get started. It has great coverage of 9i features. I used the scripts to create the database, set it up, and then tune it. I recommend DBAs also pick up a book on their operating system shell so you can program your management scripts.
Rating:
Summary: It's a handbook, not a study guide/replacement for Metalink
Review: I'm an Oracle developer who has inherited admin responsiblities for a medium sized database/application. This book DOES provide the information necessary to do that. I am pursuing the OCA/OCP track as part of this new responsibility and, as other reviewers have stated, this book does NOT act as a study guide by itself. Additionally, it is NOT a replacement for Metalink for more subtle problems/issues.
Rating:
Summary: It's a handbook, not a study guide/replacement for Metalink
Review: I'm an Oracle developer who has inherited admin responsiblities for a medium sized database/application. This book DOES provide the information necessary to do that. I am pursuing the OCA/OCP track as part of this new responsibility and, as other reviewers have stated, this book does NOT act as a study guide by itself. Additionally, it is NOT a replacement for Metalink for more subtle problems/issues.
Rating:
Summary: a little bit disappointed ...
Review: I've bought the good Oracle8 Dba Handbook and I've to tell you that there are few differences between 9i Handbook and 8 Handbook.
I expected that the new features will be explained ...
But this book is very good anyway.
Rating:
Summary: Another Fine Tome
Review: Kevin Loney continues to be a major force in documenting the onslaught of new database features from Oracle and this volume is no different. Don't expect a CD-ROM to be included with this however - mine arrived without one and there is no indication that there ever was one planned. The Oracle Press web site does not mention one. This actually turned out to be a listing error by Amazon and has been corrected. If you like performance tuning, consider Donald Burleson's excellent guide to using and extending the Oracle Statspack utility.
Rating:
Summary: Good reference material
Review: Mrs. Theriault, Mr. Loney, the Oracle guys developed a milestone 9i with a lot of new important database features. In your book I can find features of Oracle 8 and 8i. That is not fair. I'm a lucky man, because my company has bought the book! As an Oracle teacher I must order all the new books, but this book I cant't recommend to people who actually have an idea about Oracle 8!
Rating: 
Summary: This is not fair, Oracle 8 stuff in an 9i book cover!
Review: Mrs. Theriault, Mr. Loney, the Oracle guys developed a milestone 9i with a lot of new important database features. In your book I can find features of Oracle 8 and 8i. That is not fair. I'm a lucky man, because my company has bought the book! As an Oracle teacher I must order all the new books, but this book I cant't recommend to people who actually have an idea about Oracle 8!
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