Customer Reviews

Oracle DBA Tips and Techniques

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I have several books on Oracle 8i but "ORACLE DBA TIPS & Techniques" By Sumit Sarin is one of the best. If you want to know how the Oracle Server works or want to learn about the new features that ORACLE 8i has or tune your existing DB, this book gives you a very good lead.

Excellent review of database administration areas that you may come accross while performing a variety of tasks that even the Oracle documentation fails to point out. Also, an effective study tool for Oracle certification. Worth the money, for sure.

This book is an absolute must for the Oracle DBA. Sarin provides clear and practical information on every significant area of Oracle database administration. The Osborne Tips & Tricks series books are the best on the market. Buy this book along with Richard Niemic's Performance Tuning and Joeseph Trezzo's PL/SQL, and your Oracle library is virtually complete.

One thing that really irks me about this book and all of the Osborne Tips and Tricks books that I've purchased: the bind qulity is quite poor. The pages are falling out after the first week.

This book is true to it's title. It is infact a very good book to understand some of the old and new features of Oracle databases. I have learned so many new things while going through this book. It is so easy to read and understand. It has excellent collection of tips and techniques. I have found coverage on managing storage and capacity, export and import tips and oracle supplied packages, including many other areas of the book, very useful. I agree with the previous reviewer in saying that it was worth the money.

The scripts to accompany the book are not on the web site yet?? Come on Mr Sarin- get a move on.. Bind quality is very very POOR- Content of the book is good.

Concise chapters, clear and candid presentation makes it easy to read. Ready reference book always in the book shelf at the worksite. Scripts are missing on the web site mentioned in the book. It would be nice to have them. It will be a good investment on the book.

A very comprehensive and good quality book. I agree with the previous reviewers that the book is a must-have for Oracle DBAs. I have found coverage on some critical areas of RDBMS management to be very helpful. It has added to my arsenal a lot of new and useful techniques. Also the information about Oracle 8i was helpful for me. I thank Sumit for taking the time to share with us this wealth of knowledge.

Expensive book with very poor binding that does not stand the test of time. This book should be updated and republished in hardback or spiral notebook binding because it does have worthwhile, although very dated now, information in it. A waste of money.

The content of this book is very much outdated and is very much behind current technology.

This is a waste of money and time.

Good books should have good binding. Good books that fall apart at the center become worthless books. My SQL developer's guide split in 2 with 20 pages falling out and then one of the halves split in 2 again so I now have 3 pieces of book with 30 or so loose pages.