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Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

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I am currently working on system, the involves Oracle Spatial technology. This book was going to be me first step (almost) towards getting familliar with Spatial. I was little anxious about the level expected from the book's reader: "Intermediate-Advanced"; I haven't exactly felt like "advanced" in Oracle technology. It wasn't so bad; the book is really well written and I had no problems with understanding anything.

The book consists of six parts (including appendices). All the parts cover following subjects:
- Introduction to the technology. Technologies, to be exact; architectures of both, Spatial and Locator options are described -
differences between them.
- Basic concepts - basic know-how. The part, I needed the most met my expectations in 100%. It helped me to start coding really fast.
- Network analysis - more advanced subjects covered, the mostly ARE NOT available in Locator option (one I have access to); network analysis and routing engine, geometry engine. Also indexes and operators are described in one chapter of the book.
- Map Visualisation and creation - a lot of knowlege about MapBuilder, MapViewer and it's API - really helpful for anybody, who needs to visualize maps stored in Spatial.
- Sample applications and case studies - I always look for such chapter in every IT book I read. This is the place, where programmer might find a lot of answers to one's questions. There is also a chapter in this part, the belongs to the category "MUST read" - "Tips, common mistakes and common errors".

There is also sample code available for the readers - to be downloaded from the publisher's web page. It is really helpful to have it while reading the book. There is only one "but" - was, to be exact. About two weeks after the book had been published, the code wasn't available on the page. At least, I couldn't find it. Now it is possible to download it from here.

The book is really good - "must have" of every Oracle Spatial user. It might be helpful for the beginner and advanced developers as well. I would recommend it to everyone, who needs to get to know Oracle Spatial well. All the 756 pages (excluding index) are filled with reliable knowledge, especially that one of the authors - Ravi Kothuri is a member of Oralce spatial development team, where he works as software architect and team leader.

This book has some good stuff and it is great that this book exists but the value for the size and cost is not there. You can read 50 pages and learn one new thing that you cannot pickup by using the tools. I expected more on tuning and understanding of the indexer but not great for that.

I cannot say enough about this book. I got it for half price brand new from Amazon, but I would have paid the entire $85 bucks for it anyway. There is a lot of information here that is practical, not just theoretical. Anyone working in Oracle Spatial needs this book, for sure.

This book is the best that I've seen of its kind. It covers just about every aspect of Oracle Spatial, from spatial metadata right through to indexing and querying. It contains many quality examples that are easy to follow if you already have a simple understanding of the concepts behind spatial information.

It paid for itself in the first weekk of having it.

Recommended for everyone that uses Oracle Spatial 10g onwards.

this book has all you need to know about Spatial, chapters are easy to read....and the advanced subjects are very well explained....certainly a must have one....

'Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g' is one of those books that take a niche topic and then focus on it. For this book by Apress the topic is the spatial package that comes for Oracle 11. With nearly 800 pages of content spread over 17 chapters you will learn all the ins and outs of this important technology. Used extensively for geographical analysis but also for anything else that reads in spatial data this is a necessary purchase for anyone working with said types of data.

Great work by Apress as per usual and a must buy for any Oracle admins and/or developers that need this package.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED