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Summary: Awesome Oracle knowledge!
Review: I have over 50+ Oracle books from the last 5 years and have also taken all of the Oracle 8i/9i DBA training courses at Oracle. I have to rank this book even though it covers Oracle 8i it still is applicable, after all 99.99% of customers and companies with Oracle are STILL on Oracle 8i and have not even touched 10G yet I would definitely get this book along with Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases by Jonathan Lewis, Oracle One on One by Tom Kyte and Oracle 8i DBA Handbook then you can become a real Oracle guru. No other book covers such a wide range of topics on Oracle in the clear succint method that this author does. Now cant wait for an Oracle 10G title soon.
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Summary: Excellent and error free book
Review: Now a days there are lot of Oracle books which confuses the readers with inaccurate information. But this book gives 100% accurate and pracical information. And James knows about the topics he is talking. Not that just cut and paste from Oracle documentation or some metalink notes.Great book and I have already recommened to most of my friends.
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Summary: Required reading for large scale Oracle development
Review: The author's experience in large scale Oracle development is obvious. I don't agree with everything he says, but there is some good food for thought and some helpful revelations. All things considered it is worth the price.
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Summary: Excellent! Thank you.
Review: This book actually saved me a ton of work, and prevented more than one potential disaster. Oracle should require anyone with a multi-user license to read this book.
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Summary: Well versed book about oracle architecture
Review: This book is not just for those interested in leraning about the way in that an oracle database can be designed for being scalable, but also for those who want to learn about oracle architecture.
If you are about to build your first big oracle based application, the reading of this book will help you saving a great amount of time and money.
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Summary: Great information
Review: This book is packed with useful information that is otherwise hard to find. It covers Oracle, Unix and hardware issues in approximately equal depth. The focus is on issues that can affect the scalability of large OLTP Oracle systems. Because of the expansive scope, some issues are only lightly treated. Nevertheless, there are many nuggets of highly detailed and invaluable technical information.
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