Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference

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Summary: Outstanding UNIX book for the DBA
Review: This book is great for understanding how to write UNIX scripts for managing Oracle in UNIX. Many of the scripts are easy to run, and there are excellent examples to show how to write customized UNIX sctipts. This book really simplifies UNIX and concentrates on the UNIX that I need to know as the DBA. It is easy to read and a very useful reference book.

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Summary: It Support SUN SOLARIS, but leaves LINUX in the cold!!!
Review: This book is keen on Sun Solaris, but it leave Linux in the cold. How many Oracle students are buying Sun Solaris boxes? Probably a lot less than you think. Let's face it, students want a Linux box because it's practically FREE and it's the future. Maybe I should write a book for us Linux users....we like free operating systems. Who can blame us?

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Summary: Critically important for the UNIX Oracle DBA
Review: This book is loaded with the information needed by the DBA in the UNIX environment. There are many scripts with description of the commands and what they are doing. I like the way commands, used on other UNIX platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc), are included. I am delighted this book provided commands that are new to me, and provide critical information that was previously unavailable.

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Summary: Good reference book for Unix newbies
Review: This booklet is full of usefull Unix commands, most of them at the junior level and just a few more are complex. I used this book maybe 10 times since I bought it a couple of years ago, so I am not sure that I have utilizied my purchase well.

Still, I would recommend the book to any DBA who is new to Unix.

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Summary: A valuable book for Oracle dbas who are new in unix
Review: This is a book that should be in the pocket of all Oracle dbas
beginners in unix, and specially those fighting with several
flavors of unix.
If you are an experienced oracle dba working with Windows NT
or Open VMS and new in unix, these book can help you.
His reading is easy and fast, since the book contains the basics an oracle dba need in order to begin working with unix
as soon as possible.