Oracle: A Beginner's Guide [Paperback]

Michael Abbey (Author), Michael J. Corey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0078821223 | ISBN-13: 978-0078821226 | Publication Date: June 5, 1995 | Edition: 1

This is the first authorized guide to the world's leading database management system. It gives a clear explanation of all the basics for creating and managing a database, and a demonstration of designing a database, creating tables, adding and searching through data and producing reports. It also covers tuning Oracle for optimal performance and networking Oracle.

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From the Back Cover

At last -- a concise, comprehensive survey of Oracle for novice users!

Oracle: A Beginner's Guide - the only low-level book available on this complex and powerful database management system - will teach you how to setup, query, and manage your database.

In this official guide, authorized by Oracle, database experts Michael Abbey and Michael Corey cover basic to advanced SQL, and introduce you to the principles of database design. In addition, they familiarize you with Oracle tools, showing you how to create tables, how to add, search through, query, and sort data, and how to generate reports. Once you're comfortable with your knowledge of database design and implementation, you'll learn how to manage your database, as well as unravel the mysteries of tuning the system for optimal performance.

This book includes special sections on Oracle Forms 4.5, Oracle Reports 2.5, Oracle Server Manager, and Personal Oracle7 for Windows, as well as a step-by-step guide to Oracle products.

If you're looking for an excellent Oracle training program, look no further than Oracle: A Beginner's Guide to provide you with the foundation and guidance you'll need to create a database system that is both effective and easy to use.

Product Details

• Paperback: 522 pages
• Publisher: Oracle Pr; 1 edition (June 5, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078821223
• ISBN-13: 978-0078821226
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars would be an OK book if not for errors, June 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

I was reading this book to get familiar with some of DBA work in Oracle and found that it had lots of errors and typos in the areas that I know as well as obvious mistakes in examples. If I see that it's wrong about things I know - how can I trust it about the things I don't know? Read with caution, don't be surprized when examples don't work.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Oracle A Beginner's Guide, March 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

This book suffers from a lack of consistant tone and flow. The chapter on PL/SQL is bad. The examples are incomplete and poorly explained. The SQL and DBA chapters are decent. This book doesn't appear to be a labor of love. The updates for Oracle 8 and 8i add a couple of chapters, but the failings of the earlier editions remain.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent to learn from and for quick reference., July 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)

Organized in a way uncharactaristically logical for technical documentation, this book is great as a first-time user handbook as well as a reference for those who can't memorize every element of SQL, etc. You will find the information you need quickly and with little aggrivation due to its consistant layout and excellent index.

The only thing to watch out for is how it sometimes ignores (or gives little attention to) Oracle's limitations.