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High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design: Your Complete Guide to Creating Fast, Efficient Database Systems

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Mr. Anstey has written a fantastic book. He compares and contrasts traditional RDBMS modeling to OBJECT modeling. This book should be in your library if you can even spell "ORACLE"!

He also teaches the reader how to implement Objects using Oracle8 and all of its new features. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 4 that discussed modeling for Oracle's data types.

The book is loaded with information tying the two methods together. I am a visual learner, and Mr. Anstey has at least 5 or 6 very detailed drawings to help the user "SEE" and understand what he is discussing.

He even has one chapter devoted to tools used to design an Object database. Another powerful chapter is on Data Warehouses. He discusses bitmapped indexes, index-organized tables,the Partition Option, and Star Queries. Mr. Anstey covers all bases, even distributed systems using REPLICATION,the SQL3 Standard, planning your Oracle8 databases to take advantage of the Object features, and the future trends of the Object technology.

All in all, a WONDERFUL book written by an author with a great technical sense of both technologies. Both thumbs up Mr. Anstey!

Although I appreciate the amount of effort required to write a book, I simply can not recommend this one. The book describes unimportant or familiar concepts (like the traditional relational model) in too much detail and new or important concepts (like the Oracle8 object extension syntax) in not enough detail. Many of the diagrams do not appear to relate to the topics being discussed and the examples are too few and far between. I felt that the author used terminology inconsistently or at the very least did not define terms adequately. One might argue that the book is about object-oriented design and not about Oracle `syntax' but if you want to learn about OO check-out books by Booch, Jacobson, Fowler, Rumbaugh, Wirfs-Brock, etc. If you want to learn about Oracle objects try "Oracle8 Design Using UML Object Modeling" by Dorsey et. al.

This was just the book I was looking for! A well written, easy to read, technical book written for Oracle relational technicians and designers who want to advance into the object-relational and object oriented paradigm. Interspersed with elucidating diagrams and SQL syntax, the book gives the reader a high comfort level with the new Oracle 8 constructs such as Varrays, nested tables and methods. The author introduces each contstruct, clearly explains them, and then presents ideas as to how to apply them in business applications. In later chapters, after overall data base design is discussed, chapters are dedicated to method design, a discussion on available design tools, UML, Oracle 8 and data warehousing, SQL3. Once finished, the book leaves the reader with an excellent handle on Oracle 8 and how to design data bases in that environment.

The topics are explained understandable. Should be especially good for beginners. It is a book that summes up Oracle 8 features, that werent there with Oracle 7. But even when talking about object oriented design the authors talkes about the traditional waterfall phase model... anyway, The book is one of those you read thru to see what's the matter and then deepen the parts you want to know more about with other books. A very good enhancement to this are the Steven Feuerstein books on PL/SQL and Packages. If you should deal with Oracle 8i (with the JVM and Corba/IIOP in the Server and stored procedures possible to write in Java) the book is of no use at all. Fazit: Good for beginners to get an overall view

The introduction of this book claims that "valuable information can be found here" (sample case study, chapter 8). What I found is a bunch of incorrect sample codes everywhere in the book. I expected this book will address how well Oracle8 support ORDBMS. Instead it makes me wonder if the wonderful object oriented design concept presented in the book can be implemented in Oracle8 or not. Not a well edited book.

This is the first book that I have seen that explains the issues involved when using objects within Oracle. Object-orientation can be very confusing, and Anstey has done an excellent job of explain these concepts in plain English.

I have founded many errors in chapter 8 of this book and I want to contact with its author