Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Reference

by David C. Kreines and Brian Laskey

Book Overview

Oracle database administration requires a vast amount of information and an ability to perform a myriad of tasks--from installation to tuning to network troubleshooting to overall daily administration. Oracle provides many tools for performing these tasks; the trick is knowing what tool is right for the job, what commands you need to issue (and when), and what parameters and privileges you need to set. And, as every DBA knows, you need to know...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565925165
• ISBN13: 9781565925168
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Quality Book!

I am a Sybase DBA and I found this book very useful in terms of knowledge and information. This book is perfect! Don't listen to the other reviewers saying not so good things about this book. They should have read the back cover before they buying it!

Quality Book!

I am a Sybase DBA and I found this book very useful in terms of knowledge and information. This book is perfect! Don't listen to the other reviewers saying not so good things about this book. They should have read the back cover before they bought it!

This book is very useful - I don't understand some comments

I really don't understand where some of the other comments on this book come from - I find it to contain lots of information I need, and I've been a DBA for 10 years. The source material of all Oracle books is ultimately the documentation, but these guys seem to have done a very good job of extracting what we need from the docs and presenting it in a useful form. The title is "Reference", so of course it will duplicate some Oracle material. To me, it looks like the init.ora chapter is pretty close to the docs, but they did cut out some unecessary words, and I'm not sure I could write those (boring) descriptions any better than Oracle already did, so why take a chance on introducing new errors? I think the book deserves 5 stars and the reviews that rate it low don't understand its purpose or have unrealistic expectations.

Great Reference

After reading the reviews posted here, I decided to buy the book and decide for myself. What I found was pretty much what the title implies: a good solid reference book for Oracle the Oracle DBA. Sure, it contains content (I noticed an acknowlegement and copyright notice to that effect) from the Oracle documentation - but how could a good Oracle reference not? There are 16 chapters, and two or three of them seem to contain information essentially from the documentation, but edited in a way I find helpful. More importantly, the authors have distilled information from a variety of Oracle manuals and put the info in one place - a great help to me. I am an experienced DBA, and I suspect I will be using this book a lot!

This is the greatest book since sliced bread

In this one book, the authors have distilled at least five Oracle manuals. Want SQL*Plus syntax? It's here. SQL syntax in a concise layout? Here. Every init parameter, descriptions of the various tools DBA's use most, plus a great summary of Oracle starting with an overview, all the way through installation, tuning, backup, and security. The list of steps for creating a new database is wonderful for new DBA's who's primary experience in this area is probably the Oracle course. As a new DBA, this one book will save me lots of time looking through PDF files of Oracle documentation. A great find - this book you'll pry from my cold dead fingers!