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Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

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Mishra gives an Oracle DBA a concise guide to version 10g, the latest Oracle database. The blurb on the back cover refers to a plethora of options with these utilities. Thumbing through the book, you can certainly see this. And who can remember all those, or want to? Hence the reason for the book.

The notation is BNF and should be familiar to any unix user. But also very useful in the book are the examples given of common usage of most utilities, with typical results also shown. Sometimes, the quickest way to grasp a usage.

If you're used to UNIX-like man pages, then this is a great guide for Oracle's utilities. Quick, concise, no fluff and well organized. It provides just enough detail where needed but doesn't go into overkill on the topics.

It has already saved me a ton of time and if you use Oracle even semi-regularly, this is a must-have.

This O'Reilly pocket reference contains straightforward documentation about the Oracle DBMS utility set, current as of 10g (expdp and impdp are included). Terse, accurate, straightforward. A much faster way to find answers (once you know the questions) than the often wordy Oracle Press tomes and a useful supplement to that series, for the everyday Oracle DBA.