| | |  | Osborne-McGraw-Hill | Home » » » » Oracle9i DBA Handbook | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This authorized guide from Oracle Press explains how implement all the new features of Oracle9i and manage a robust, high-performance Oracle database. You'll get new and revised material on installation, database creation, using STATSPACK, Recovery Manager, Oracle9i Application Server, external tables, flashback queries, and much more. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Kevin Loney | | Paperback:
| 1008 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | | Publication Date:
| November 28, 2001 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0072193743 | | Product Length:
| 9.08 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.34 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.04 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.53 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.98 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.32 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.62 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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26 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 This is not fair, Oracle 8 stuff in an 9i book cover!Apr 16, 2002
By Manfred Fischer
Mrs. Theriault, Mr. Loney, the Oracle guys developed a milestone 9i with a lot of new important database features. In your book I can find features of Oracle 8 and 8i. That is not fair. I'm a lucky man, because my company has bought the book! As an Oracle teacher I must order all the new books, but this book I cant't recommend to people who actually have an idea about Oracle 8!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Don't understand all the negative reviewsJul 29, 2005
By S. T. Peterson
First off, I purchased this book as I am taking a course in Relational Database Design using Oracle 9i. I had labs to do that involved setting up user accounts, giving/revoking permissions to tables, etc. THe "Complete Reference" didn't have the necessary information--some but not all. This book--the DBA Handbook--had more complete information that quickly gave me me the information that I needed to answer the questions. I must admit that I shyed away from it at the beginning of the course because I read all the negative comments here. But I am glad that my desperation (because the Oracle product documentation was absolutely no help) pushed me to go to nearest Borders to check it out before purchasing it. I am happy with it.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Great coverage of 9i featuresAug 02, 2002
I'm a beginner DBA, and this book had what I needed to get started. It has great coverage of 9i features. I used the scripts to create the database, set it up, and then tune it. I recommend DBAs also pick up a book on their operating system shell so you can program your management scripts.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Another Fine TomeDec 11, 2001
Kevin Loney continues to be a major force in documenting the onslaught of new database features from Oracle and this volume is no different. Don't expect a CD-ROM to be included with this however - mine arrived without one and there is no indication that there ever was one planned. The Oracle Press web site does not mention one. This actually turned out to be a listing error by Amazon and has been corrected. If you like performance tuning, consider Donald Burleson's excellent guide to using and extending the Oracle Statspack utility.
19 of 27 found the following review helpful:
This in NOT an Oracle9i new features book!Jan 14, 2002
You should only consider buying this book if you do not have a good Oracle8i book already or if you are willing to read it completely. There are only a few references to Oracle9i and you have to search them in the index (which means that you have to know the new features BEFORE even reading the book!). It looks like time-to-market has played a key role in the conception of this book.
The one star is for being a pretty good book for Oracle newbies.
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