Oracle Database 10g New Features: Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning & Administration (Oracle In-Focus series) [Paperback]

Mike Ault (Author), Daniel Liu (Author), Madhu Tumma (Author), Don Burleson (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Oracle In-Focus series | Publication Date: December 1, 2003

For those database administrators intending to upgrade or those who need to know the new features that will affect the entire Oracle database world, this book relates all of the features of this new database. The complete details of the database's new features, including database management and administration enhancements, are discussed. Improvements and additions to security, architecture, Internet features, real application clusters, and performance are also detailed.

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About the Author

Mike Ault is a senior technical management consultant with TUSC and holds five Oracle master certificates. He is the author of 14 Oracle-related books, including Oracle 9i RAC and Oracle DBA Exam Cram. He lives in Alpharetta, Georgia. Madhu Tumma has been a software developer, IT manager, database administrator, and technical consultant and has worked on a wide variety of projects and environments, including mainframe, client-server, eBusiness, and managed services. He has consulted a variety of clients on database clusters, business continuity, and high availability solutions. He is a frequent speaker at Oracle World and IOUG, where he presented many technical papers and is the author of Oracle 9i RAC. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Daniel Liu is a senior Oracle Database Administrator at First American Real Estate Solutions. He has many years of industry experience in database administration and software development. He has worked with large-scale databases in multi-platform environments. His expertise includes Oracle database administration, performance tuning, Oracle networking, and Oracle Application Server. He lives in Anaheim, California. Donald K. Burleson is the author of 16 Oracle database books and is the editor in chief of Oracle Internals. He is an Oracle consultant with extensive experience designing and implementing Oracle8 databases, including systems architecture, project management, data warehouse design, implementation and tuning, tuning massively parallel Oracle databases, Oracle SQL tuning, using Oracle with SAP, and tuning very large Oracle databases. He lives in Kittrell, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Rampant Techpress; 1 edition (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974071609
• ISBN-13: 978-0974071602
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,103,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very poorly written, September 19, 2004

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Steven Ensslen "Steven" (Victoria, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Database 10g New Features: Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning & Administration (Oracle In-Focus series) (Paperback)

I am appalled by the low quality of this book. The writing is weak and the examples are poor. Some features are described for many pages with many very similar examples and others entirely lack examples or explanation. There are plenty of cases when the book directly contradicts itself (p78 the database size is 8 million G in the table and 8 million T in the text; p82 there are 11 platforms in the table but the text says that there are only 9;...) In short, it appears that the book was never proofread.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Burleson does it again, February 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle Database 10g New Features: Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning & Administration (Oracle In-Focus series) (Paperback)

Good overview of 10g new features but not much detail to backup examples. Book was too much like beta estudies almost word for word. Looks like he was trying to be first to market on this one. Skip it and wait for others with more detailed examples.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Only Useful as Reference, March 18, 2005

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pewis "pewis" (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Database 10g New Features: Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning & Administration (Oracle In-Focus series) (Paperback)

Perhaps I underrate this book as it might really be useful as a reference. But I am just a run-of-the-mill DBA. What I look for when a new Oracle version is out is a book that explains the new features in a readable fashion and that makes me understand anything required to pass the OCP exam (which is more than I will ever need in real life as the Oracle RDBMS is increasingly blown up with unnecessary features). This book is not a book that one would like to read cover to cover: it is very much written in the stile of the official Oracle documentation, constantly listing parameters over whole pages. This could be useful if you want to drill down into a certain feature, but in such a case you might want to turn to the online documentation anyhow. And you should have read an Oracle 10 New Features book that really made you understand the big picture beforehand.