Using Oracle 8 (Using)

By Meghraj ThakkarAri KaplanDavid Austin, et al.

This work aims to help database administrators troubleshoot, tune, back-up and upgrade their systems. It includes easy-to-access reference information for the less experienced Oracle database... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789716534
• ISBN13: 9780789716538
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 805 Pages
• Weight: 2.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good Work

A very good book on Oracle8 administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery. Full of well organized useful information.

Concise, inexpensive, organized, unlike other Oracle books

I am primarily a Solaris system admin who wants to learn more about the inside of Oracle and what it takes to keep it up and running. The O'Reilly titles were a major disappointment since most of their stuff usually rocks, but let's hope for better 2nd editions on those along with some good tutorial material. The Oracle Press titles are totally disorganized and a major embarassment! David Austin has put together a great book with Using Oracle 8, and if you have to suffer through NT (and thank God I don't), he has plenty of material on Oracle Enterprise Mgr (all of chapter 4). Then he moves on to the nitty gritty, with a Unix-oriented or at least generic "pure Oracle" approach. I have spent two weeks browsing and reading various Oracle books and good choices are hard to find. I strongly recommend Alomari's "Oracle8 and Unix Performance Tuning" as well.

Excellent book!

First let me qualify by saying I have worked with Oracle for over 4 years and that I read this book as a refresher to learn the new features of Oracle 8. I mostly stick with the O'Reilly series, but I have to say this is a very good reference book. Who ever gave this book one star is full of crap. If you knew all of the concepts and procedures for running Oracle that are contained in this book, then you are on your way to becoming an Oracle DBA. Notice I said "on your way", which means that you would not yet be qualified to be an Oracle DBA after reading this book, but you would have an excellent foundation of the material that an expert DBA needs and uses everyday. There may have been a few mistakes here or there, but for $30 it's the best deal you'll ever find.

Not bad for beginners

Most of the books I've read on Oracle assume you already know what you are doing, and have taken classes. This book is fairly easy to read, and covers material in great detail. I should warn you--some of the examples are incomplete, and occasionally incorrect. But considering its price, I'd consider it a good starting point for a beginner. One of the reviews expressed dissapointment at its lack of PL/SQL coverage. This is not a programming book. For PL/SQL, I suggest O Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL Programming.

A fantastic and complete reference for Oracle DBA's.

This is an outstanding book on all levels. It gives a great deal of coverage to the very important issues of developing and maintaining an Oracle Database. Furthermore, the specific examples and step by step outline to complete certain tasks are exceptional. This book offers so much more than the typical Oracle Press Book. The book is well organized, full of real life examples, and a neccessary tool for every Oracle professional.