Oracle8 DBA Handbook (Paperback)

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Product Description

What every system administrator needs to know for effective and efficient database management.

From the Back Cover

The Essential Guide to Database Management in the Real World.

No DBA should be without this book! Oracle8 DBA Handbook is a thorough revision of the most popular book ever published on the subject of Oracle database administration. This comprehensive authoritative guide is considered the "bible" for all Oracle DBA's.

World renowned Oracle expert Kevin Loney show you how to set up a database for maximum efficiency, monitor it, tune it, and maintain its security. You'll find tips on using Oracle's distributed database and its client/server capabilities for both UNIX and NT platforms. Completely revised to cover Oracle8 and all of its revolutionary new features and technologies, this book holds the most up-to-date information available on Oracle's latest release of Oracle Server, including:

Managing very large databases (VLDBs) Implementing Net8 (the updated version of SQL*Net) Supporting Oracle tools and packages, including Oracle Financials, Oracle Designer/2000, ConText, and Oracle utilities And of course, supporting Oracle8's object-relational database technology and the Oracle7 to Oracle8 migration process

Whether you are a new or experienced DBA, you can master the many nuances and intricacies of this complete and powerful database system. The Oracle8 DBA Handbook will be your crucial guide to developing today's real-world information needs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 822 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1 edition (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078824060
• ISBN-13: 978-0078824067
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,420,765 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the most error prone Oracle Press books I've seen., June 15, 1999

By A Customer

Don't waste your money! Mr. Loney has not been trained properly on the Oracle Architecture and the way Oracle works. Mr. Loney's descriptions on background processes and the way the Oracle server work do not match what Oracle publishes or teaches.

You are not required to take my word for it, read the Oracle8 Concepts Manual and the Oracle8 Administrators Guide, both published and updated by Oracle Corporation. (Available on the web at technet.oracle.com)

This is not a personal attack, I'm sure he is a nice man but his book contains many factual errors that can be verified by referencing the Oracle documentation.

I was an Oracle employee and instructor for Oracle Education and I have verified errors within the book.

This book is no longer on my recommended reading list.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great resource, October 28, 1999

By A Customer

This book has helped me move from a junior developer role to a dba role. I keep referring developers to specific parts like how to avoid ORA-1555 errors that I haven't seen in other places.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for beginning DBAs, July 19, 1999

By A Customer

As a new DBA (<1yr), this book is my best reference guide. Some of the early concept parts I can do without, I prefer the concepts guide for that. The most valuable parts for me were the parts on the configuration and setup of the tablespaces, along with the backup and recovery implementation. From my read-through of the tuning material, I'm sure the tuning sections will be helpful when I get to that point. This book is not just a reference, there's a real focus on how to do things with a process-based focus.

I'd like the next edition to cover OEM instead of just focusing on the line mode commands. The line mode commands show you all of the details that OEM goes through, so that's useful, but I'd like to see the screen-based methods as well. That way the book would be even more useful for beginning DBAs.