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Oracle8i: A Beginner's Guide

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I found this books useless. There is much better books out there, even if you are a new beginner. In this book there is not any word about Java infrastructure of Oracle 8i, which is the main difference between Oracle 8i and Oracle 8. On the other hand, it tries to explain you some java related tools. No figures, charts or graphis of any sort to make the understanding easier. I could not find any correlation about how the authors organized the chapters and the chapters' contents. The author's style is very irratating as he continously praises Oracle. Oracle this, Oracle that..etc, without giving a solid information. Shortly this books is bad and do not waste your money. You can find better information in Oracle white papers or documentations which are free at technet.oracle.com and at oracle web site.

If you are a new beginner, buy dummies series. Dan Hotka's Oracle Unleashed book is also very good for ever level of readers.

It's not complete enough for beginner of installation or utilisation. But it may be usefull to those who wants to learn about Oracle 8i, but who does'nt use it. I could see my boss reading it...

Oracle Press continues to adhere ot its level of standard on technical book quality - uselessness. This book gently touches on topics that in themselves are so complex that books can be written on each. But the DBA and developers community know better these days: O'Reilly books - Yes! Oracle Press books - No-No!

I'm an Biz/IT consultant trying to pick up Oracle 8i from scratch. I think the so-called "beginner" aspect stems from the fact that it tries to explain very basic IT terminologies such as Intranet, Internet, client, server, TCP/IP etc at the beginning of each chapter. I find most of the explanations quite appauling though.

I think the author should devote more time illustrating data modeling terminologies such as tablespace, schema, dropping of database, mounting etc... I find no explanations to these.

The author also spend much time blowing whistle for Oracle and write about Oracle being the database of the future, and what powerful features it has. Lots of big words used, but no examples nor illustration of how they can be done. It's frustrating to waste time reading these.

In conclusion, I find that this is a very huge book with little substance and poor organization. I've read it for days but don't seem to gain much from it. I'm looking for another book to buy, that explains why I'm in here.

This book is great for total beginners who have little to no experience with networks and databases. If you are looking for a general reference book, the book will be sufficient for basic stuff. For more complicated things like writing subqueries, inner joins, outer joins, stored procedures, creating data models and database administration, you should get a dedicated book. For professionals who want a good general reference book, a general purpose database administration book is a better bet. If you're used to GUI database administration, then get a good PLSQL book instead. There's no substitute for detailed knowledge and expertise with SQL and command line.

The book is useless for people interested in Oracle 8i. The i part is less than 5% of the book. It's a generic discussion about Oracle and it's tools for very beginners.

All I can say is this book is great to get a person up to speed with Oracle products. The portion of the book explaining all the parts that make up the Oracle package and the installation are worth the price alone.

I am an absolute beginner in Oracle, and I was looking for a book that will show me step-by-step how to create and administer an Oracle database. This book will give you a little idea how to administer an Oracle database alright, but it is assuming you already have a database to administer!... Gladly, I just borrowed this book. Now I understand why the guy who lent it wasn't very happy with his purchase.

I am totaly novice in Oracle DBA programing. When I bought this book I thought it would be a good place to start. Well, I was completely dissapointed. This book is neither for beginers nor for some who knows basic DBA programming. Today I returned it to the bookstore.

I found it to be a pretty good overview of basic concepts; a decent book for someone with very little Oracle knowledge.