Specially designed and written to help you pass the Oracle8: New Features for Administrators (1Z0-010) exam, Oracle DBA 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram is packed with time-saving study tips, test-taking strategies, and warnings on how to deal with trick questions. Includes a sixty-question sample test with answer key and a special CRAM SHEET with tips, acronyms, and memory joggers with help you pass the exam the first time. With this book you will to how to migrate Oracle7 databases to Oracle8; use new Oracle8 data types; use new Oracle8 parallel DML and DDL features; create and administer Oracle8 partitioned indexes; use new Oracle8 security features; create and use new Oracle8 ROWID structures; use the new Oracle DBMS_ROWID package; use RMAN, the Oracle8-provided backup and recovery facility.
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There's always work for an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) with up-to-date database administrator (DBA) credentials. If you're planning to take the Oracle8: New Features for Administrators (1Z0-010) exam, Exam Cram: Oracle DBA 7.3 to 8 Upgrade can help you crystallize your familiarity with the material you need to know to pass comfortably. In typical Exam Cram style, this book sticks close to Oracle's published exam objectives, and will prove most useful to readers who have Oracle8 systems to experiment on.
Robert Freeman presents his material in a style that's the model of efficiency, with prose, tables, and conceptual diagrams that get immediately to the point. The author includes a number of handy tips, including the mnemonic ORDR for recollecting the new Oracle8 ROWID format (ORDR, he says, stands for Object number, Relative datafile number, Data block number, and Row number). While it's great to see sample questions at the end of each chapter and answers that appear with explanations of why they're correct, some readers may be annoyed by the fact that the answers are immediately below the questions they correspond to. You'll have to quiz yourself with a sheet of paper to prevent inadvertent cheating. That's a minor complaint, though. Read this book for its concise presentation of what you need to know to keep your Oracle DBA certification current. --David Wall
Topics covered: The facts and procedures Oracle says you must understand to pass the Oracle8: New Features for Administrators exam (1Z0-010). Coverage includes the upgrade procedure, the new ROWID format, partitioning tables, Data Manipulation Language (DML), Data Definition Language (DDL), parallel processing, new object types, security, and backup and recovery operations.
About the Author
Robert Freeman (Enid, OK), is a certified Oracle8i DBA. He has worked with Oracle products for almost 20 years, most recently as a consultant IDS Corporation in Florida, where he is working as a database administrator. Robert was the author of the Oracle 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worthwhile, but supplement,
This review is from: Oracle DBA 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-010) (Paperback)
Although I recommend this book for the upgrade exam, there are a few precautions. I discovered via the self tests that the discussion on partitioned indexes was pretty inadequate (read the Oracle Concepts guide). If you don't use the networking stuff, you will need supplementary reading too. There are some aggrevating problems with typos/edits (like object views), but most of the material is otherwise strong.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not excellent!,
By Ales Kavsek (Ljubljana, Slovenia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle DBA 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-010) (Paperback)
This book has some really strong parts such as: 1) organization of the book with excellent coverage of exam topics (short and informative), 2) review questions on the end of each chapter are very well prepared and even harder than the real ones. Usually this is not the case with exam preparation guides. 3) last chapter alone with 60 sample test questions is worth purchasing the book. Not only that questions are picked up and presented carefully, a big help are explanations of why the particular answer is correct or wrong. Great stuff!So why I didn't give the book five stars as other reviewers? While reading the book I found many (minor) typos in text, source code, questions, answers (most of them as consequence of misuse of COPY/PASTE or writing example of code on the fly) which I found annoying at least. There are some more serious mistakes like statements "Prefixed indexes are built on the same partition boundary as the table..." or "...you can not partition a bitmap index." I have a filling that author simply didn't re-read this book and technical reviewer was obviously not up to the task of proofreading Oracle syntax and technical details. (If you're interesting I can send you my own version of errata - I'm still waiting the errata from the author.) On the bright sight this is certainly the best study guide for upgrade exam on the market. Highly recommended! Btw. I passed the exam with 60 points (100%).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quickest Way to Pass the Exam,
This review is from: Oracle DBA 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-010) (Paperback)
I am hooked on the exam cram series. This book gives harder questions then the Oracle Press books. This makes you think more about the material, which in turn makes you better prepared. I felt that using this book gave me a well rounded knowledge of the Oracle material, and the Oracle Reference books helped me in fine tuning those areas I needed help in. With the help of this book I passed the OCP Oracle 8 Upgrade Exam! Study Time was 1 month.
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