Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) [Paperback]

Edward Whalen (Author), Ed Whalen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself... | Publication Date: November 1997

Sams Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days shows you the basics of using and administrating an Oracle database. Key topics include installing Oracle, planning the database, how to administer users, and how to manage processes. Also covered are administering logs, control files, datafiles, and tablespaces, building tables and views, using indexes and clusters, and security. Learn effective backup techniques, how to recover the database, administering Oracle replication, tuning and optimizing, administering the Oracle Web Server, and Advanced Oracle Options.

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Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days is a tutorial that will teach the reader the basics of using and administrating an Oracle database. This book focuses on using concrete examples to explain why things should be done in a certain way. The key topics are broken out by week below:Week One Overview of the Oracle8 Architecture; Network Computing Architecture (NCA); Installing Oracle; Planning the Database; How to Administer Users, and How to Manage Processes.Week Two Administering Logs, Control Files, Datafiles, and Tablespaces; Controlling Rolback Segments; Building Tables and Views; Using Indexes and Clusters; and Security.Week Three Effective Backup Techniques; Recovering the Database; Administering Oracle Replication; Tuning and Optimizing the Database; Administering the Oracle Web Server; and Advanced Oracle Options. - This hands-on tutorial teaches the basics of Oracle8 in a short period of time

- The book provides a step-by-step walk through of the Oracle8 architecture, managing database storage and database schema, security, backup and recovery and tuning and optimization.

- Oracle8 is Oracle's new object-oriented RDBMS to be released during the Summer of 1997.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672311593
• ISBN-13: 978-0672311598
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,677,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I started my database career at Compaq Computer Corporation in around 1991. I was working as a SCO Unix kernel developer in the Unix group when I was asked to help with an Oracle benchmark. After working with Oracle I found that Oracle performance was very challenging and interesting. Eventually they started a database performance group and I was part of it. In this role I continued to work with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server performance on both Unix and Windows. While I was at Compaq I started my writing career.
In 1997 I left Compaq and founded Performance Tuning Corporation (www.perftuning.com). At Performance Tuning Corporation we do database performance, integration and disaster recovery consulting and I continue to write books. I am currently working on the "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Companion" which is my 9th book. I continue to enjoy database performance consulting as well as being at home with my wife and playing with our Border Collies. I enjoy being able to work with customers and I am constantly learning new things about Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just say NO !!!, February 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) (Paperback)

Unlike other "21 days" texts, this book is not a tutorial that you can follow in front of your terminal or workstation. Many of the examples don't work at all. Did anybody at the publisher actually go through the book to see if any of this stuff makes sense? Obviously not. The only thing you'll learn (and in less than 21 days I might add) is that this book is a waste of time and a source of frustration. The book is geared toward Oracle8 on Windows NT 4. If you're running NT 4, skip this book and try "Oracle8 & Windows NT Black Book". Now that's a good book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I've been looking for..., January 6, 1998

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Anthony Willingham (Signal Mtn, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) (Paperback)

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I've been searching for an Oracle book that covered the essentials of DBA. I had alot of Microsoft Access experience but very little Client/Server experience (although I'd read about it for years). Every other Oracle resource I looked at assumed I knew how to set up Oracle or assumed the database was already set up and ready to go. This book holds your hand every step of the way. I don't know how helpful this book would be if you knew zero about relational databases but it's perfect if you have some relational database experience. There is ALOT to Oracle. It looks like it might take me sometime to master it but I am well on my way now. I was very excited to find this book, I was this close to buying "Oracle 8 for Dummies"

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Basically a wizards how-to-book., April 30, 2000

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Grieb - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) (Paperback)

This book does nothing more than teaches one how to use the Oracle wizards to create tables, users, etc... If your new to Oracle, you should learn the syntax of the command lines even thought your in a NT environmet.