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Oracle DBA 101
by Marlene Theriault, Marlene L. Theriault, Rachel Carmichael
Product Group: Book
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (2000-01-15)
ISBN: 0072121203
EAN: 9780072121209
UPC: 783254031425
Dewy Decimal #: 005.7585
Paperback: 563 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: T070712-4230
Condition: New
Comments: New Book. New condition. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy,
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Oracle DBA 101 describes in detail the day-to-day duties of a database administrator -- and how to accomplish them -- including installation, management, troubleshooting, monitoring, tuning, security issues, and much more. Plus, you'll get expert, on-the-job advice from seasoned DBAs. This book is ideal for the aspiring Oracle database administrator as well as for the Oracle application developer moving to a DBA role. Oracle DBA 101 will get you on your way to becoming one of the most in-demand IT professionals in the field.
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Amazon.com Review
Oracle DBA 101 offers a friendly place for budding Oracle professionals to learn critical database management skills. Refreshingly, the book's entertaining style doesn't preclude the authors from discussing advanced concepts. The text opens with a discussion of everything an Oracle DBA is expected to do. It moves quickly into the particulars of the Oracle architecture, all the while maintaining a comfortable writing style that makes easy reading of material that is, because of its technical nature, very dry. It also includes excellent discussions of the valuable inner workings of Oracle such as the V$ views and tools such as the Optimizer and Explain Plan. This section, along with a later chapter on performance, provides techniques for diagnosing the causes of even mysterious performance symptoms. A chapter on backup and recovery is included, but it is fairly brief. Oracle is a very complex product, and this book doesn't attempt to make a seasoned pro out of the reader. But it does provide a fine balance of big picture perspective and internal details to enable new DBAs to hit the ground running. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: Database layout, installation and configuration, tablespaces, System Global Area, monitoring, DBA and V$ views, SQL*Plus overview, Optimizer, Explain Plan, TKPROF, Autotrace, performance tuning, backup and recovery.
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Customer Reviews
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Too basic to be really useful
Rating  (2)
Date: 2005-04-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The text is too basic to be a realy useful reference. If you've got any Oracle experience, you'll probably skim through most of the text. Sure, you'll pick up a pointer here and there--but that'd be the case with nearly any book.
I guess if you're not an Oracle user but want some familiarity (say, you're a technical Project Manager, or you're an experienced SQL Server DBA moving to Oracle)--maybe then this would be a good review. But otherwise, it's too simple for even a "101" rating.
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really bad
Rating  (1)
Date: 2004-12-21
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is horrible. For example, the section on imp and exp simply have a screen shot showing the output of "help=y". Great, thanks... I could have done that myself. How about going over some typical scenarios like backing up a tablespace and loading it to a test server? Want to see how full your tablespace is? You won't find anything about that in this book. Hmmm, maybe your archive logs are filling up your disk? Can you safely delete them? You won't find the answer here. There is a chapter on tuning the server. Why you'd put this in a "101" book is beyond me.
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Good book for The Oracle Beginner
Rating  (3)
Date: 2003-09-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a good book for the oracle beginner. The concepts, unique to Oracle (from the perspective of a beginner or someone familiar with other database systems such as Microsoft SQL Server) have been plainly explained. Such explanation is not available in Oracle manuals or help files.Having said that, the book, at times, tries to simplify subjects too much. As a result, the book has a lot more pages than its necessary and might run the risk of frustrating the reader. I would've given it a higher rating if it was shorter and more to the point. Good book regardless.
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Oracle DBA 101
Rating (3)
Date: 2002-04-10
1 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
I seldom wrote any book comments due to my poor English writing. I consider myself as an Oracle DBA beginner and want to lie on my resume. Though I have completed the whole book I still feel confused about the Oracle architecture and basic Oracle DBA commands. This book is not a good reference book for a starter. Besides, this book doesn't cover some preliminary but important topics such as Oracle Network and background processes. If you just like me want to cheat on your resume to get a DBA job, get a different book.
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May Not Very Good
Rating (2)
Date: 2002-03-01
I have not been able to complete this book, but I do think that it is rather difficult for a beginner doing self-study. Please, look elsewhere!
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