Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Upgrade Exam Guide [Hardcover]

Jason S. Couchman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0072192658 | ISBN-13: 978-0072192650

Officially authorized by Oracle Corporation, this book and CD-ROM package offers comprehensive coverage of all material on Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA upgrade exam. Chapter self-tests complete with in-depth explanations are included. The CD-ROM contains more than 250 practice questions that link further information on the subject in the electronic version of the book.

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Get Certified with Official Exam Prep Material from Oracle Press

The IT industry's top DBAs must be ready to deliver optimal performance in the face of extreme system demands. Upgrade your abilities and demonstrate your expertise by becoming Oracle8i certified. This exam guide contains 250 practice questions--fully supported with detailed answers--designed to upgrade the skills of Oracle7 and Oracle8 certification holders. Get full coverage of Oracle8i Database and object management, Java enhancements, and internals--plus a detailed review of all features and advanced functionality of Oracle8i including OLAP functionality, index enhancements and partitioning improvements, Oracle Universal Installer, and Database Resource Manager. Featuring a logical methodology designed to reinforce your learning experience, this guide offers the following study aids:
*100% complete coverage of all official exam objectives
*Examples and exercises for every topic, designed to help you learn and retain key concepts
*Two minute drills--end-of-chapter summaries perfect for last minute review of the material
*Chapter self-tests--detailed question-and-answer sessions designed to help you retain information from each chapter
*Extensive coverage of exam objectives, such as enhancements for archive duplexing and multiplexing, improved statistics gathering, top-N queries, LogMiner, and defining new constraint features.
*Interactive exam on CD-ROM that lets you hyperlink directly to explanations in the electronic book

Fully endorsed by Oracle Corporation, this book and CD-ROM package is a powerful preparation tool for DBAs seeking to upgrade their certification. Absorb the material and prepare for the real thing with this study guide, officially endorsed by Oracle Corporation.

About the Author

Jason Couchman (New York, NY) is an OCP-certified Oracle DBA and author of Oracle Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide, Oracle Certified Professional Application Developer Exam Guide, Oracle Certified Professional DBO Certification Exam Guide, and Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Practice Exams. He has led Oracle database projects with Fortune 500 corporations and presented topics at the North Carolina Oracle User Group. His articles on Internet and Intranet development have been published internationally.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 557 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (June 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072192658
• ISBN-13: 978-0072192650
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,735,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors, January 24, 2002

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Michel Mezher "thinktriplets" (Montreal, Quebec (Canada)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Upgrade Exam Guide (Hardcover)

The book can be good for those who don't have Oracle ILT (Instructor-Lead Training) or TBT (Technology-Based Training) material (as in my case).
There are too many errors in this book and if you don't pay good attention, you won't probably be able to notice them. You can find errors in the topics and especially in the exercises. The wrong answers (the book as well as the CD) always misleaded me. They often contradicted the discussed topic. I had to always double-check on my database or in Oracle documentation and other sources.
I e-mailed the author about the errors and he answered me that the fixes are going to be published ... but it was not the case.
The book lacks explanation on temporary LOB (large objects), and the main features of Oracle Universal Installer (as the Web enabled installations feature). Also Materialized View Logs don't exist !!!! In the 8i upgrade exam I had a few questions on these two topics.

I passed the exam (75%) but what I can advice you (if you don't have ILT or TBT) is to combine all of these in your preparations:

- Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide (By: Jason Couchman) (this book)
- ExamCram Oracle8 to 8i Upgrade (By: Robert G. Freeman, Charles A. Pack)
- Oracle8i Upgrade CramSession PDF document ...BR>- Implement on an Oracle 8i database

All of the above are complementary. Trust me on this.

One last thing: it's too unfortunate that Oracle OCP team (or whoever is responsible for this at Oracle Education) didn't check this book roughly. It's all about quality folks, and not quantity!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of mistakes, Do not buy it, September 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Upgrade Exam Guide (Hardcover)

After I finished the instructor-led training class for Oracle 8i exam, I read this book for test preparation. I found that some quetions are misleading and explanations are confusing. Don't waste money for this book, go to buy Robert Freeman's book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I can't beleive they let him publish it!, November 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Upgrade Exam Guide (Hardcover)

I can't beleive how many errors are in this book. Why would Oracle Press allow him to publish it?