Oracle Desk Reference

by Guy Harrison

The Oracle Professionals Everyday Desk Companion. . . . Instant answers for Oracle 7.3, 8 and 8i If you are tired of wading through Oracles 20 core help manuals or their online equivalent, this new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130132942
• ISBN13: 9780130132949
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great addition to Oracle library

What I like alot about this book besides compacting lots of great Oracle information used every day is the thickness of paper used to allow over 500 pages in half the space of other books thereby making the book alot easier to handle. This makes it much more accessible as a desk reference which is what it is intended to be. I have this plus a few other books in a small stack on my desk within armreach that I refer to frequently not only because they have great content but because they are easy to grab and flip through. The big, thick books look nice and impressive on a bookshelf but I'll bet many of you haven't opened them in years.We have the pdf files of Oracle docs, anyway, so who needs the concrete blocks?

The BEST guide for Oracle Experts

This book was written for Oracle experts. It provides specific information for Oracle commands, however it expects that you know what to do with the information. I use it all the time as I generally know what I want to do, and have a good idea about what command I need to use to do it, but I'm fuzzy on the exact syntax of the command. This one little book has replaced several large tomes from Oracle and remains a critical component to my Oracle toolkit. It is much more complete than any other Oracle reference I have found.

The ONE book I always carry in my briefcase

While this book does not contain a lot of detailed explanations about Oracle features, built-in packages, parameters, etc., it certainly does serve the purpose the I believe the author intended it to serve. It is a condensed version of about 10 different books from the core set of Oracle documentation. It is the single book I always carry in my briefcase while visiting clients - Extremely useful for quickly looking up syntax and definitions. Thanks so much for lightening the load!

Both of the previous reviews are right.

In the two previous reviews the authors gave this book one star and five stars, respectively. Both are right. This is not a learning book, it is a detailed reference. You should not count on learning anything from this book. However, I use it every day to get the syntax right for cryptic Oracle create, grant, and alter statements. It is small, concise, and a bargain. As a reference it is a good book. However, it should not be the only Oracle book you own.

Comprehansive, easy to use Oracle version reference

Developing Oracle tools which need to run with Oracle 7.3, 8 and 8i databases we have found this book invaluable in identifying Oracle version differences and allowing us to quickly gear our product to run on each of the different Oracle DB versions. For us this book represents a highly used desk reference which has saved us countless hours by providing us a simple and easy to use command reference set.