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Summary: Hands-On Happiness
Review: For the beginner to Oracle, this book is exceptional!!! I was blown away. It starts off with an interesting analogy to what a DBMS is/does and then in Chapter 3 (called Hand-on Practice) he has you downloading Oracle (Windows or Linux) and installing it and creating databases that you later backup and recover. I was very impressed. It is so essential to get your hands on any software to fully learn it. So, even though this book is focused on backup/restore, the first half of it is teaching you Oracle from the ground up. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is not afraid of installing a huge software package and has an interest in Oracle.
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Summary: Good book to solve backup mystries
Review: Good book to get a grasp on backup and recovery process for Oracle. Explains many unexplained subjects. Excellent practices to verify the reading material. There are few mistakes in the sql and scripts that needed to be rectidy in the future releases. Asif Jafri OCP DBA
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I thought this book was great! I really enjoyed the material and the analogies. I really get Oracle backup & recovery now. Forget about the typo's -- the material is what counts.
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Summary: Not for beginners - too many mistakes and typos
Review: I would rate this book 5 stars for the material. But, gosh, is there any Oracle book without mistakes? When would authors and publishes care enough to eliminate them, or at least minimise them? Even errata contains only about 50% of necessary corrections - after 6 months from being published.
What is the value of instructions if you can't follow them?
If you know how to correct them by yourself, then you can buy this book, otherwise it would be another pain.
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Summary: A must have book for the production DBA
Review: Oracle backup and recovery can be very complex. The standard Oracle documentation is hard to follow and missing examples and scenarios. I've read this book cover to cover, and the authors have done an excellent job at capturing the information you need to know to backup and recover your Oracle database. The Linux discussions are applicable to any Unix platform as well. This book is a great reference to have before disaster strikes.
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Summary: A must have book for the production DBA
Review: Oracle backup and recovery can be very complex. The standard Oracle documentation is hard to follow and missing examples and scenarios. I've read this book cover to cover, and the authors have done an excellent job at capturing the information you need to know to backup and recover your Oracle database. The Linux discussions are applicable to any Unix platform as well. This book is a great reference to have before disaster strikes.
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Summary: Disappointing, full of errors
Review: This book has almost one error per page which is much too high for a technical book. It is unfortunate that the authors did not put in the effort to proof read the book and to check their solutions. It is interesting to note that the solutions on the web site are not consistent with the exercises in the book.I wonder how the authors authors keep their real jobs if their attention to detail is the same as demonstrated in this book.
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Summary: Excellent purchase
Review: To my advice,the book best addresses false oracle beginners, it is conceived like a self-training manual. This progressive step to step manual guides the user from the simplest backups to the more sophisticated ones. The examples are all online and concern Oracle 8i and 9i; they are run on linux and NT/2000.
I have gone through the 2/3 of the book and the associated exercices (2000) and little information was lacking so i needed outside help. It will greatly help oracle administrators who can get confidence outside the production databases and all backup consultants who promote vendor software.
Although some minor errors, i give a 5 stars rate.
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