Using Oracle 8 (Using)

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Summary: Good Work
Review: A very good book on Oracle8 administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery. Full of well organized useful information.

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Summary: This book is not for beginners.
Review: I am a Microsoft SQL Server expert and purchased this book to learn about Oracle. I purchased it because the advertising for the book said that it was for beginners. Even though I am very knowledgable about SQL databases, I found this book very hard to follow. It leaves out many important areas, and it assumes the reader knows a lot, especially about the SQL language. I would not recommend it to people who are learning Oracle for the first time.

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Summary: Concise, inexpensive, organized, unlike other Oracle books
Review: I am primarily a Solaris system admin who wants to learn more about the inside of Oracle and what it takes to keep it up and running. The O'Reilly titles were a major disappointment since most of their stuff usually rocks, but let's hope for better 2nd editions on those along with some good tutorial material. The Oracle Press titles are totally disorganized and a major embarassment! David Austin has put together a great book with Using Oracle 8, and if you have to suffer through NT (and thank God I don't), he has plenty of material on Oracle Enterprise Mgr (all of chapter 4). Then he moves on to the nitty gritty, with a Unix-oriented or at least generic "pure Oracle" approach. I have spent two weeks browsing and reading various Oracle books and good choices are hard to find. I strongly recommend Alomari's "Oracle8 and Unix Performance Tuning" as well.

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Summary: help us
Review: I come from Iraq and when you want to get a new dook it, the search operation is more defficalt because you know please help me to get more information about learning oracl by the way I'm programmer thanck you for your help .

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Summary: Lightweight, cursory, glosses over most topics
Review: The book does not have the in-depth coverage that expert SQL users would expect. If you are a beginner then it may suit you just fine. There are not enough nuts and bolts for people like me who really need the complete reference book.

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Summary: Concise, inexpensive, organized, unlike other Oracle books
Review: This is an outstanding book on all levels. It gives a great deal of coverage to the very important issues of developing and maintaining an Oracle Database. Furthermore, the specific examples and step by step outline to complete certain tasks are exceptional. This book offers so much more than the typical Oracle Press Book. The book is well organized, full of real life examples, and a neccessary tool for every Oracle professional.

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Summary: A fantastic and complete reference for Oracle DBA's.
Review: This is an outstanding book on all levels. It gives a great deal of coverage to the very important issues of developing and maintaining an Oracle Database. Furthermore, the specific examples and step by step outline to complete certain tasks are exceptional. This book offers so much more than the typical Oracle Press Book. The book is well organized, full of real life examples, and a neccessary tool for every Oracle professional.