Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook

Oracle Database 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and Data Guard (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters

Linux

Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration

Format: Paperback
Author: Edward Whalen
ReleaseDate: 31 October, 2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Rating:

Very satisfied with the contents
Yes, the author did explain clearly the process of installing and configuring the Oracle 10g on Linux. If you read the editorial review: It is stated that the book is about installing and configuring Oracle Database 10g on Linux. He also covered a few more topics such as HA (High Availability), Tuning SQL, RAC, Replication, Index and Partitioning . . . but not in depth. But the coverage is acceptable and useful. Do buy this book and you will find it useful if you love Oracle DBMS running on LINUX platform.

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Good intro to Oracle 10g for Linux
This book is okay not perfect but the only real Oracle 10g for Linux book on the market. As an experienced Oracle DBA, I wanted a nice text that covers Linux specifics to Oracle 10g.

Good
1. RAC coverage is decent
2. Linux tuning for Oracle is nice

Bad
1. Data Guard coverage is very weak
2. No workarounds for installation issues with Linux and Oracle

So I give it 3 stars because its not bad but not great. I hope that the other Linux for Oracle RAC book that comes out next year is better.

lots of buzzwords but no useful info

Unfortunately I found the book to have a lot of unneeded info such as history of Oracle, history of Linux, Unix, overview of Oracle products,etc junk. I was very anxious for this book to come out since it had a very lucrative table of contents with all the "right" stuff in it. If you an Oracle professional, you probably know all of this anyways. I was hoping to find "trade secrets" and "best pratices of ORacle on Linux" that will help me , but instead found very basic descriptive information, nothing detailed in particular.
There is nothing "special" about Oracle architecture, backup and recovery in this book that refers to Linux that you can't find in any other oracle 10g book. The only useful detail that I found is remapping of kernel base when using Large memory for SGA, but that also can be dug out of OTN. Also you will find a much better overview of Linux from any "Linux Administration" book.

Overall this book may be ok for a newbie as introduction, but if you are past that stage, I would say pass on this one. .