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Oracle 8 Troubleshooting

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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.

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 Most of scripts that are provided with this book are outdated, most go back to 1993-96 v6 and v7 of Oracle.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!

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.

I found this book to be good for someone who is not totally new to Oracle, however is not all that experienced either. If you have about a year's worth of experience and would like to learn more about how to solve common problem's, this book is a good choice.

As an Oracle dba, I found this book to be of little, if any, value. I suggest you try to find a copy in a bookstore and look it over before you buy it. Unless the Oracle Applications section of the book is helpful (my company doesn't use the product, so I skipped this section), I can't imagine who would actually use the material in this book.

The authors of this book had a very daunting task at hand. They didn't even put a dent into what is troublesome in Oracle 8. The product is so full of bugs and employs archaic ways of doing things that this book should only serve as Vol. 1 of 100. Valiant effort, but summarily unsuccessful. I say this to the authors. To the Oracle 8 development team, I say: Mediocre effort, and entirely dissapointing.

THIS BOOK DOES NOT GIVE CONCISE AND TO THE POINT ADVICE ON VARIOUS PROBLEMS WITH ORACLE 8. TOO MUCH USELESS INFORMATION, WHICH MAKES FINDING SOLUTIONS TO VARIOUS PROBLEMS WITH ORACLE 8 HARD. THE BOOK WAS ACTUALLY SUPPOSE TO BE WRITTEN AS A FILM STORY, BUT FORTUNATELY, HE MIXED SHOOTING WITH TROUBLESHOOTING AND AFTER THAT, HE ADDED ORACLE 8, WHICH BECOMES ORACLE 8 TROUBLESHOOTING. THE AUTHOR NEEDS TO HIRE A GARDNER AND TRIM THE BUSH.