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Oracle DBA with CDROM (Training Guides (New Riders))

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I felt this book had the best exams and chapter review questions.

Nonethless I recommend you read all the OCP books out there, and take all the sample exams you can get you hands on.

This book gives an excellent summary of the OCP-required knowledge base. I read it, and then read the Coriolis Exam Crams and Oracle Performance Tuning (Gurry, Corrigan). My only (minor) criticisms are the confusing PL/SQL section and the lightweight treatment of Tuning. Overall though, a very worthwhile purchase.

The book is well written and provides the student with good working knowledge of Oracle 7/8. But the materials seem to be slightly out of sync with the exams. Some subject areas are covered in greater detail than necessary for the exam. A few of the exam question topics were not covered in the Training Guide. The book's review questions do not properly prepare the student for the complex type of questions on the exam.

There are some small errors, but the book has good examples and covers most of the exam topics. It's easy to read and well organized. Since there aren't so many OCP study guides, you should give it a try.

I successfully passed all four tests and I would not recommend this book

This book has good organization; yet lacks the delivery of the goods. Touches on the subjects briefly; sometimes confuses the issues completely and shrouds things in more mystery than necesarry. The test questions are riddled with mistakes. Obviously whoever wrote them did not read it or any other reference materials. In short, need more and better meat than this to pass.

This book lightly touches on the objectives. It doesn't have NEARLY the material to pass the test. I compared test objectives on official Oracle sample tests to covered objectives on this book and found out that in many cases this book DID NOT either have the objective or covered it lightly. You will probably need the Oracle Complete Reference book and another Oracle Press-type DBA book to prepare for the exams. The only good thing about this book is that you can get a decent knowledge of database administration in only 100 pages (not enough for the exam though).

Though the organization is good, the delivery is not very thorough. I'll pass until Oracle Press comes out with a second edition.

Hope the author encloses a disk or CD which contain the sample question. thanks.

Very well thought out and constructed overview of topics whose mastery is required in order to pass the OCP exam for Oracle7. Lots of hands-on step-by-step walk-throughs, meaningful examples, exercises and sample questions, good illustrations of syntax and Oracle concepts. Very little information about Oracle8 for the upgrade exam.