OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set [Hardcover]

Jason Couchman (Author), Rama Velpuri (Author), Charles Pack (Author), Sudheer Marisetti (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007219524X | ISBN-13: 978-0072195248 | Publication Date: June 25, 2002 | Edition: Three-Book-Set

Save 20% on four books! Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional exams using this complete Oracle Press study system. In each book, you’ll find in-depth details on all the material covered on these challenging exams, followed by practice questions and chapter summaries to highlight what you’ve learned. Books and CD-ROMs combined contain 1,200+ practice exam questions. This boxed set includes: OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide, OCP Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals I Exam Guide, OCP Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals II Exam Guide, OCP Oracle9i Database: Performance Tuning Exam Guide.

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About the Author

Jason Couchman (New York, NY) is an OCP-certified Oracle DBA and author of Oracle Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide, Oracle Certified Professional Application Developer Exam Guide, Oracle Certified Professional DBO Certifica-tion Exam Guide, and Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams. He has led Oracle database projects with Fortune 500 corporations and presented topics at the North Carolina Oracle User Group. His articles on Internet and intranet development have been published internationally.

Rama Velpuri is the CEO of ORAMASTERS inc., (www.oramasters.com). ORAMASTERS which has a very strong Oracle technology team has been founded with a mission to provide reliable and dependable support services, online, for Oracle Users worldwide. Before founding ORAMASTERS (formerly Aquilasoft Corporation), Mr. Velpuri worked with Oracle Corporation for over 10 years. At Oracle, he was an Executive Director of the Oracle Application Development Center. He has built two offshore development centers for Oracle, one in Bangalore, India (India Product Engineeing Center) and the other in Hyderabad, India (Oracle Application Development Center). Before that, he was a Sr. Manager of the Mission Critical Support Center. Mr. Velpuri has presented numerous technical papers at various International Oracle Conferences and Oracle user conferences on disaster recovery and trained Oracle support personnel in 21 different countries in problem solving techniques.

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2112 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; Three-Book-Set edition (June 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007219524X
• ISBN-13: 978-0072195248
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.9 x 6.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,437,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Needs Polishing, August 31, 2002

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Rob Ricks (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set (Hardcover)

Overall, this is a reasonably useful set of books. The books can be used both as general reference and as study guides for the OCP exams. There are several errors, especially in volume 1, OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide. I recommend downloading the errata for volume 1 and marking the changes before you start reading. Also, I suggest you run through all the examples and verify the answers given in the books. I found a few errors that the errata didn't catch. These books are a nice place to start for test preparation, but don't rely on them as your only test preparation guide. I found the questions on the tests to be much more difficult than the practice questions in these books.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfying, November 2, 2002

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Rachel Tozier (Brea, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set (Hardcover)

This collection looks like a good deal with its bundled pricing, 2000+ pages and CD ROMs, but there are problems that make it not such a good deal.

Each of the books have factual and typographical errors, and the material is so poorly written that it's nearly impossible to use any of them to study for the OCP exam. Also this set is NOT for DBAs on the job. Looking up information is difficult, and trusting what you do read is a barrier since I counted hundreds of "facts" that I disagreed with in the books.

Pass this set up.

42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Book For OCP 9iDBA Exam Preparation, July 17, 2002

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Radhakrishnan Ayyappanaicker (Bangalore, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set (Hardcover)

This book set is very useful for the preparation of OCP 9iDBA Certification Exam. The materials required for all four exams available in one set with less price. This book saved my preparation time by half. I have gone through first two books (1. OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide &
2. OCP Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals I Exam Guide), I find it very useful to acheive OCA. Yet to go through other two guides.

Pros: Less Price, More than 2000 Pages with practice questions and answers. The CDROM with this set is very useful for the sample test.

Cons: Some editing erros.

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