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Summary: Great intro
Review: This book is a great intro to the world of Oracle 10g for both beginners and those experienced in other RDBMS flavors. As an Oracle DBA of a number of years it gave me an easy readover of what to expect when my company is ready to move from version 9.2 to 10g.
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Summary: Solid beginner's book
Review: This book is a great place for inexperienced Oracle developers to begin learning about the new 10g architecture. Designed as a crash-course in everything one would need to know to effectively maintain and develop for an Oracle database, this book does a good job to quickly get the reader in control of this potentially complex data system.After a brief introduction to Oracle data types and the basic environment (like tables, views, and indexes), the authors present a fairly detailed section on writing data queries. While much in this section can be applied to some of the more recent versions of Oracle, it is targeted to the 10g platform. The reader interested in this section will also likely want to read Chapter 6, which focuses on writing PL/SQL. For the aspiring database administrator, there are some very good sections on what an Oracle DBA should do. While simply reading these sections won't make you a DBA, they contain a lot of good information including discussions on networking issues and disaster recovery. The rest of the book contains a lot of information on Oracle features, which can be used by both database developers and DBAs. Examples include Oracle's use of XML and Java, as well as database maintenance issues for supporting large datasets. This is a great beginner's book to Oracle 10g, as it includes just enough information to be useful, but not so much that it becomes overwhelming. This is definitely a good book to pick up if you are new to Oracle or the 10g platform.
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