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Oracle9i A Beginner s Guide
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Rating: 2.9/5 from 10 reviews Don't botherNice coverage of database concepts and internals.Wow, there is a lot of unfair bashing on this book. This book covered exactly what its cover title said... "...A Beginner's Guide. Learn the essentials of Oracle..." Learn the essentials of Oracle was described very well. You get the feel of how the internals of Oracle go. If you are in a job interview and the interviewer asks some basics like the SGA, cursor or what is net8? You'll be laughed at for not having this simple yet broad database knowledge. Very few books describes the Oracle internals and general memory structure of all databases. It sure beats reading the white papers and manuals on the Oracle website. Anyway, this was the section that I thought was highly significant and it distingueshed itself from other books. I think some of the bad reviews below were not expecting what the book's title asys. "Learn the essentials of Oracle." If you want to buy a book on how-to write SQL and learn nothing else, then there are some SQL books targeted solely for only SQL writing. A Good for Introdutry book for beginer. Not expertLike title said, the book is for beginner and cover very wide area, It has include everything you need to know such a SGA, redo log, control file. It also cover package, procedure and function, Java and Form 6i. In other word, it cover from DBA to developer and show you the way where you want to move on. However, each chapter can become a Book itself. For those people who do not know what oracle is about and what sort of Component is involved as a Oracle DBA or Developer . This is book to go. For those who are already family and want a detail information on how to Master on a specific tecni such as PL/SQL, DBA. Sorry and this is not the book. BTW, I think the O'Really PL/SQL is a good book too. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Oracle started off as a database engine but overtime a lot of products have been added. This book could tie it all together but doesn't; it ends up being an introduction to SQL, PL/SQL and DBA tasks, things which are better handled by specialist books.
Some sections of the book sound like they have been written by the marketing section. The history section completely ignores the importance of Forms 2.3 and 3 in the growth of Oracle, which is probably good because they don't mention the disaster that was Forms 4.0.
I certainly have a problem with the jokes and diversions. As an attempt to excuse a misleading Oracle error message, a whole paragraph is devoted to what happens if your automobile fuel cap is not closed properly. There is a reference to a wild horse chase, to give the wild geese a break. This makes it very difficult for my Japanese colleagues to understand. If I could say one thing to the authors it would be "you are not funny."
If you are very new to Oracle then it may be useful, but for anyone who knows about Oracle (or computers) then it is a waste of time. You will have to go on and read more advanced books anyway, jump the fluff in this book and get stuck into some serious books.
I might give this book to my father so he can get an idea of what I do.