Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference

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Summary: Greate book for NT background DBA want to learn UNIX oracle
Review: Concise. You can learn how to tuning not only Oracle side also on Unix side. Some useful command and scripts you can customize to fit your environment! But you must know unix command and shell script before you read this book.

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Summary: Good for the UNIX Novice
Review: Decent reference - at least pointing out some interesting options and some things to watch out for at the OS level. As mentioned in other reviews - its HP-UX oriented with nearly as much focus on AIX, but lacks detail on Solaris (and Linux).
Fairly well written - but mainly pretty simple content. Just keeps you from looking up the syntax in some cases. If you are new to UNIX its probably worth the purchase. If you are an experienced UNIX professional - find it used to make it a worth-while purchase.

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Summary: Excellent reference for UNIX newbies
Review: From the author - This book is designed for both experienced UNIX professionals as well as newbies.

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Summary: A useful UNIX scripts compilation
Review: I found this book useful to write UNIX scripts for Oracle DBA tasks, specially performance tuning. The entire book is filled of 'tricks' (like how to kill a oracle user-process in unix,etc) some of them not very useful. I expect to find some more practical examples on backup (unix-generic oracle backup scripts), oracle architecture on unix, net8, oracle installation, utilities like export (I mean, why don't show an example of how to use UNIX pipe when you make an export file greater than 2gb?), etc. Also, it lacks of explanation about UNIX admin commands critical for any Oracle DBA who in almost one situation has to be the UNIX system administrator, like booting, file system administration, etc. I mean some generic examples could be enough. Needs to be improved.

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Summary: Super book for UNIX and Oracle
Review: I was very impressed with this book. I am always forgetting UNIX command syntax, and this book helped me to remember the commands that I need. It also has lot's of great tips, and techniques for managing Oracle. Overall, this is one of my most-used Oracle books! Highly recommended.

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Summary: Instant Shortcuts
Review: It is organised for various Unix platforms, it provides some useful and essential commands for developers to conduct ad-hoc administrative or investigation works.Also, there is another pocket book named "Oracle DBA Checklists", it introduces some essential steps for trouble shooting and achieving a specific task like recovering from loss of control files.

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Summary: Good for HP-UX and AIX
Review: Not so good for those using Solaris as many Solaris
server monitoring, management and logs commands
are missing. This is surprising since after putting
in so much effort, it would have been trivial to find
out the corresponding commands in Solaris.

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Summary: Good for HP-UX and AIX
Review: Not so good for those using Solaris as many Solaris
server monitoring, management and logs commands
are missing. This is surprising since after putting
in so much effort, it would have been trivial to find
out the corresponding commands in Solaris.

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Summary: Great book - comes thru every time
Review: Originally being an NT oracle dba, this book time and again gives just what I need know for the Unix environment. After using the book for a year, now (it just saved me again), I just want others to know this book is worth it.

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Summary: Very handy
Review: The common UNIX tasks a DBA does. Covers common UNIX versions. Does not cover the extensive scripting required for some tasks. But then, it wasn't intended to.