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Oracle Essentials : Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 (2nd Edition)

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Having read the first chapter and a half in this book, I find this book harder to read than other books. It assumes that you are somehow familiar with the mechanics of how Oracle systems work. I guess if you are already familiar with Oracle, this book would be a good companion book; but if you're like me...trying to learn Oracle, you will need to read this book over VERY carefully since the author is not really clear in what he has to say. Therefore I recommend this book for seasoned professionals, but not beginners trying to learn Oracle.

I picked this book up to re-aquaint myself with Oracle. As a developer, I typically only dive into SQL-PLUS and data modeling. This book explains everything a developer needs to know about the vast, and I mean VAST feature set of Oracle. Plus this book brought me up to speed on 9i... Such as features in 9i such as Real Application Clusters, a new XML datatype, and the CREATE TABLE... AS SELECT.

This book is perfect for an application developer, an IT manager, or a beginning DBA new to Oracle. This book is worth twice its price!! Kudos to Greenwald, Stern, and Stackowiak.

This book gives you not only detailed explaination on very facet of Oracle in a plain, easy to understand language but also displays a clear map of how each components related and how they work together. That is, in my opinion, very important to understand Oracle.

The book gives a high-level overview of almost everything. Totally worth the money.

Since I wear the dba hat, developer hat, and all the other hats on this large (2 billion + data points) Oracle database, I need help for infrequent activities, like installing an upgrade (8.0 to 9i), migrating tables that are upwards of 20GB each, and making sure the new server is setup/configured optimally for the data warehouse. Based on the customer reviews, I bought this book. The level of technical help is insufficient in my specific areas of interest. The last book I bought for this was excellent, The Black Book for Oracle8 and Windows NT. And the books I bought from Oracle Press were also excellent. This book was not as helpful. The Oracle DBA Pocket Checklist is helpful, but you will need lots more than this book if you are the infrequent dba. So back to using Oracle Support and Oracle Press....

After that You will have good understanding of Oracle basics, but for deeper knowledge You must find other books! Language not to difficult, helpful images.

Both a great reference and tutorial..... a must for beginners.

Obviously the authors are well versed in the intracacies of Oracle. I have heard of Jonathan Stern from within the industry. He is a genius.