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Oracle Database 10g: A Beginner's Guide (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: Ian Abramson
ReleaseDate: 17 March, 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Rating:

3 Day Read and Review


Read 4 of the 9 chapters and here is what I found. Setting expectations: My last Oracle training was for my OCP certification on Oracle 8i but needed to be up to speed on 10g in less then 3 days.
Chap 1: Database Fundamentals, Chap 2: SQL, Chap 3: Database Administration, Chap 5 Back and Recovery, then onto Chap 9. Large Database Features.

Summary: Basic structure of 10g is the same as 8i (Control files and background processes). What's new is that Oracle has added Grid computing - the ability for distributed computing across heterogeneous systems - from what I can tell this is a `work in progress' type of feature.

Also new to Oracle 10g is additional self management for tuning and many helper Agents and GUI utilities. The Oracle Data Pump is also new.

RAC and Clusters are discussed but at a VERY high level - would have liked more info here. Automatic Storage Management is discusses and appears to be VERY cool feature.

What is also new is Oracle's ability to support ANSI Joins, e. g. , s. Cust_id(+) becomes `right outer join'. However, I like the old non-ANSI format myself - more intuitive in my book.

so...so
. It is okay book to get started.

Possibly the worstbook - ever
I'm an experienced SQLServer DBA and thought this book would be fairly useful as a starting place for getting into Oracle. This is possibly the worst book in this category I've ever seen. Its a total dud. It looks like the authors have picked a whole bunch of random bullet points out of the Oracle help files and thrown them together with a mild semblance of organisation. I would bet that a 'dummies' book would be better!!!!!!!!!.