Oracle 8 Troubleshooting [Paperback]

Rama Velpuri (Author), Anand Adkoli (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1999

This text presents information on Oracle8 and other Oracle applications such as: Oracle Financials and Oracle Web Application Server. The accompanying CD-ROM includes: world wide customer support technical bulletins, sample scripts and sample configuration files.

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The ultimate guide to preventive maintenance and Oracle problem solving. Protect your database against system crashes and other common problems--and learn to solve disasters as they occur--using this best-selling guide to Oracle preventive maintenance and troubleshooting. Now thoroughly revised and updated to cover Oracle8 and Oracle Applications, such as Oracle Financials and Oracle Application Server, Oracle8 Troubleshooting is a complete and practical guide to help you test for, diagnose, and solve problems without using a technical support line. With their combined 17 years of experience at Oracle Corporation, authors Rama Velpuri and Anand Adkoli pack this book with their personally recommended solutions and preventive maintenance techniques. Trusted by thousands of Oracle DBAs and application developers, Oracle8 Troubleshooting is an investment that pays for itself from the very first use. Oracle8 Troubleshooting Provides: All-new material on Oracle Applications, including Oracle Financials and Oracle Application Server; critical installation tips and troubleshooting techniques for all key Oracle products on operating systems ranging from Microsoft Windows 95 and NT to Unix; proven answers to the most frequently asked Oracle questions, straight from the tech-support trenches; insights into handling problems with the RDBMS, client tools, and connectivity software; pointers to online and printed resources explaining how to shorten development cycles and maintain high availability of production applications; insider advice on getting the best possible tech support from Oracle Support Services.

Product Details

• Paperback: 784 pages
• Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill (February 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078825806
• ISBN-13: 978-0078825804
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,908,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Requires the user have experience with Oracle products., November 20, 1999

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John ([e-mail]) (Fresno, CA. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle 8 Troubleshooting (Paperback)

This book is pretty good at taking care of some of the basic problems that can be seen with oracle products. One of the problems that I found with this book is that is not for a beginning DBA. There are many places in this text where the author makes assumptions that you the reader know what is going on. The other issue is that they try to cover trouble shooting on mutiple platforms and with many different oracle products. If I were the author I would have picked one platform and one product to focus on. Not really bad book, but it is a bit vague and does require an experienced DBA.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Totaly Useless, March 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle 8 Troubleshooting (Paperback)

Hoping to gain additional skills to deal with complexity of Oracle8 databases. Well, this book is a collections of bits of information from Oracle Support database that can be found on the Support WebSite. Most of scripts that are provided with this book are outdated, most go back to 1993-96 v6 and v7 of Oracle. It seems that the book was done in a rush and has very little value to any Oracle DBA with 2+ years of experience. Would not recomment to waist your money on it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a bit of this a bit of that but no installs, May 25, 2000

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Georgina "tville" (san francisco, ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle 8 Troubleshooting (Paperback)

I would disagree that it should concentrate on 1 platform. I think it's strength is the multi-platforms. Also I would disagree that an experienced dba could only benefit. I think that there should have been more installation related issues that's all.