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Expert Oracle Database 10g Administration (Expert's Voice)

Format: Paperback
Author: Sam R. Alapati
ReleaseDate: 16 September, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Excellent Resource for 10g DBAs
This book covers the latest Oracle 10g Release 2 features in detail and is an excellent reference for DBAs as well as developers and managers who are using the 10g database. The book is a solid, painstakingly detailed Oracle 10g DBA handbook.

The book provides excellent coverage of all 10g features, such as the Automatic Workload Repository and the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM). There is very good coverage of features such as the SQL Advisor and the Segment Advisor.

The book's great feature is that in addition to clearly explaining the various topics, it provdes useful examples or scripts to help implement/use the various features. This makes it a very useful and practical addition to any Oracle DBA either currently using or planning to implement Oracle Database 10g.

For those just starting out, the book also provides excellent tutorials on Oracle SQL/PLSQL and the UNIX operating system as well.
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Terrible book
Probably some hanky panky going on with the publisher. I cannot understand how 10 folks rate this book full star.

This is NOT an expert book. Read up on Tom Kyte's or Jonathan Lewis' books if you want a real expert taste.

For example:
#1 Which expert wants to know HOW to "uninstall Oracle from Windows"?
#2 Which expert knows not what Level 0 or Level 1 backup is?!
#3 Which expert needs a 200-page syntax description on PL/SQL packages? This reminds me of the silly hey-days of Java API books *bah!*

Please don't buy this book - or even read it.

A Powerful book from an Expert
The author delivers a heavy book full of useful information you will need in your journey as a competent DBA. If you are serious about mastering Oracle 10g, get this book and read it over and over.
Part 1 can be considered as a refresher. In part 1 the author covered important topics such as Data modeling, Normalization, tools and utilities in UNIX/LINUX a DBA needs for his job. The rest of the book focused on Oracle database 10g. The following areas (Architecture, Installation, Connectivity and User Management, Backup and Recovery, Database Management, Performance Tuning etc. . ) were covered in great details. For almost every thing the author provides an example to back his writing. This style was very helpful and you can test the examples yourself to see the result.
The step by step instruction of installing Oracle 10g on Unix/Linux is well done in the book. I have used it many times and it works.
Even though much of the examples in the book are on Unix or Linux platform, there is a chapter that covers Oracle 10g on Windows.
Overall it is a good book to use as a reference. It provides a lot of information you can quickly use and get your database up and running. I highly recommend it.