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Scaling Oracle8i™: Building Highly Scalable OLTP System Architectures

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This book is packed with useful information that is otherwise hard to find. It covers Oracle, Unix and hardware issues in approximately equal depth. The focus is on issues that can affect the scalability of large OLTP Oracle systems. Because of the expansive scope, some issues are only lightly treated. Nevertheless, there are many nuggets of highly detailed and invaluable technical information.

Although sometimes short on the complete detail, the relevant topics are all there, in one place. From sizing, to performance, to parallelism, to resilience, to future planning, Morle ensures that you consider all the angles. Morle's easy style helps you find what you're looking for, and understand it quickly. The references at the end of each chapter are particularly useful. Despite its title, I wouldn't entirely ignore this book for non-OLTP systems. I would recommend putting this book on your recommended reading list for all engineers building Oracle-based systems, of any size.

"Scaling Oracle 8i" is an incredibly well written book that clearly explains the concepts and terms DBAs have been using for years. But more importantly, it explains them in a way that highlights their relevance in terms how to design applications that will scale, or how to correct existing applications that don't run as well as expected. This book is a necessity for all system and application architects that plan on using Oracle.

Complex technical concepts are presented in a clear and lucid manner. Yet none of the nuances are glossed over. It's one of the best books in this area. Should have appeal and use to a wide variety of audiences including systems administrators.

This book actually saved me a ton of work, and prevented more than one potential disaster. Oracle should require anyone with a multi-user license to read this book.

Now a days there are lot of Oracle books which confuses the readers with inaccurate information. But this book gives 100% accurate and pracical information. And James knows about the topics he is talking. Not that just cut and paste from Oracle documentation or some metalink notes.

Great book and I have already recommened to most of my friends.

Complex concepts in the area are presented in a clear and lucid manner. Yet none of the nuances have been glossed. It is one of the best books in this area. Should have appeal and use to a wide variety of audiences including systems administrators.

I have over 50+ Oracle books from the last 5 years and have also taken all of the Oracle 8i/9i DBA training courses at Oracle. I have to rank this book even though it covers Oracle 8i it still is applicable, after all 99.99% of customers and companies with Oracle are STILL on Oracle 8i and have not even touched 10G yet I would definitely get this book along with Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases by Jonathan Lewis, Oracle One on One by Tom Kyte and Oracle 8i DBA Handbook then you can become a real Oracle guru. No other book covers such a wide range of topics on Oracle in the clear succint method that this author does. Now cant wait for an Oracle 10G title soon.

A very rare book which explains Oracle internals, more practical than academic. Advanced topics like latch contention etc are explained lucidly. This is the only book that explains hashing technique with a simple yet neat example.

This book is not just for those interested in leraning about the way in which an oracle database can be designed for being scalable, but also for those who want to learn about oracle architecture.
If you are about to build your first big oracle based application, the reading of this book will help you saving a great amount of time and money.