Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585 EAN: 9780072231458 ISBN: 0072231459 Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 736 Publication Date: March 24, 2005 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Sales Rank: 95746 Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Product DescriptionEverything a DBA needs to know in one volume--this is the must-have reference for anyone working with the Oracle database, and it's been fully revised and updated for Oracle Database 10g. Co-author Kevin Loney is the all-time, best-selling Oracle Press author.
What Others Say
Excellent Reference
Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook thoroughly describes storage structures, day-to-day tips for installing, maintaining, and upgrading 10g databases. I refer to it often when performing DBA functions. It can also be read as a primer from cover-to-cover to get an excellent understanding of 10g.
Great book!
Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook can't be out of your office! It's an excelent, faster, complete reference that helps you in your every-day Oracle DBA work, It cover from the basic topics to RAC and high-availability configuration in only 708 pages. Obvious, It's a handbook reference and doesn't give you the complete solution for one problem, but if You had been working for 2 or 3 years as DBA, or if You are and OCA or OCP DBA, the book is a great reference for you.
Forget it - RTFM
Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook unfortunately does nothing to expand the body of knowledge beyond putting on paper what you can just as easily find in the standard documentation. I'm sorry I put my money down for this when I have the docs just a click away as I type.
I have tried a few times to use this as a reference, but each time it takes me about 3 pages to hit a deadend because of some question or situation that the book fails to address. In each case I have had to figuring it out for myself from the standard documentation/google etc.
The authors consistently fail to deliver the two things I look for in technical books:
(1) provide the insights on "why is it so?" - the explanation, mental models, frameworks that help readers ... Read More
Reference Book!
If you are looking to learn Oracle, don't try to do it with Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook alone. Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook is great for reference, but to try and understand all that is Oracle requires a different book.
Merely regurgitates Oracle's documentation.
Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook merely regurgitates the freely available documentation from Oracle. However, Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook is even worse since its space limitations means that the author is forced to be even more cryptic than the already difficult to understand product documentation. I could not find anything useful in Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook - the book doesn't explain anything. Nothing at all. Aren't books like these supposed to simplify concepts for nonexperts or beginners? Forget about Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook. Download the free documentation and use the money to print that out at Kinko's instead.
