Oracle8i DBA Bible [With CDROM and CD]

by Carol McCullough-Dieter and Jonathan Gennick

New Internet functionality and support for Linux make Oracle8i a milestone release, and this authoritative guide explains all the tools and techniques administrators need to master this potent new database. Some of the new features covered include an embedded Java Virtual Machine, expanded data warehousing capabilities, and enhanced DBA tools. You'll discover SQL* Plus basics and tools on your way to finding out more about fine-tuning performance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764546236
• ISBN13: 9780764546235
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 1152 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Useful to a new DBA

I bought this book when I started out as a DBA. It isn't the only book you'll need, but it has has excellent sections on subjects a DBA really needs to know: export, import, and sql*plus, including line editing commands. It also has more information on sql*loader than you'll find elsewhere. Those chapters alone make it worth buying.

This is an excellent book

Previous (negative) reviewers are out to lunch on their assessment of this book. If you want a kindergarten primer on how to learn Oracle, then look at Oracle Press book titled "Oracle DBA 101" ("your Oracle career starts here," and guess what, ends here too if that is all you use). News flash: Oracle is difficult to learn, and if all you want (or can manage to learn) are GUI interfaces such as OEM, then "live by the sword, die by the sword" applies to you. If that is the case, skip this book and move straight to the 10g "Oracle Database 2 Day DBA" manual. You will fail miserably as a DBA if all you rely on are the GUI interfaces. If you don't want to pour through Oracle's documentation, especially the Concepts guide (although at some point in time you should), you need a good third-party book or reference, and this book is it. Does it explain every single detail or feature of Oracle? No, and neither does any other book. If you are new to Oracle and want a good running start on how things work, then "your Oracle career starts here." Further, a lot of what is contained in the book can be applied to 9i as well. The "perfect" Oracle DBA book has yet to be written, but when asked to recommend a book for learning Oracle from scratch, "Oracle DBA Bible" is by far and away my number one choice.

Great book for beginning-intermediate DBA's

This is a very good to-the-point manual for all of the basic to intermediate subjects you need to know for Oracle 8i administration. I was surprised at how much was actually contained here relating to all of the different parts of the Oracle RDBMS world. However, it does not make a complete reference (no listing of init.ora parameters for example) and therefore garnered 4 stars from me instead of 5. It is a great book nontheless. Buy it!

Good book, includes discussions on Java, XML etc

Good book. Talk a little about the XML interface and how to write SQL statements against XML files. Explains the JVM and how Java works within Oracle. Overall helpful reading for the beginner.