Oracle Dba Survival Guide [Paperback]

Joseph B. Greene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

This book goes beyond basic database knowledge to understanding the whys and hows behind the administration process. It takes readers through job responsibilities and planning to implementation and performance monitoring.
-- Provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for everything involved in running an Oracle RDBMS
-- Teaches the components of the physical environment as well as administration techniques
-- CD-ROM includes numerous scripts and files that will aid readers in their daily tasks

Product Details

• Paperback: 769 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672306816
• ISBN-13: 978-0672306815
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,856,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb DBA Introduction, March 22, 2000

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This review is from: Oracle Dba Survival Guide (Paperback)

All that you would want to know to get started as an Oracle DBA is presented in this book. The author has diverse experience in large, small, development environments, data warehouses, etc. and is able to relate examples to go with his excellent presentation of technical essentials of Database administration. Far from exhaustive coverage, but just right for an introduction.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best and only? book on this subject, July 8, 2004

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Martin Roots (Estonia, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Dba Survival Guide (Paperback)

If you ever consider working as an Oracle DBA _THIS_ is the book you want to read. It does not give you mutch technical knowledge(you can get taht from the reference books or training courses) but instead it introduces you the basic consepts of database administration on Oracle. A MUST HAVE for a fresh DBA.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Man, what a mediocre book., March 18, 1998

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[e-mail] (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Dba Survival Guide (Paperback)

Virtually every time I've turned to this book for answers to specific Oracle questions, it has failed to have any useful answers. It does, however, have useful bits of advice like: "Warning: if you have instances or applications that are crashing, you may have some really serious problems." No kidding! "It is often more important to know where to find the answers than to know the answers themselves." Unfortunately, the answers I've needed have yet to be found in this book.