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Summary: Sage Advice From The Oracle Expert
Review: This book belongs on every developer, team leader, or DBAs desk that works with Oracle. Kyte has written a masterpiece in advanced Oracle knowledge. He does three things very well in this book: tells you what is important in Oracle, why it is important, and what happens if you do things the wrong way.Kyte starts out giving the foundations for Oracle databases, the architecture, locking schemes, and table and index considerations. He gives a good treatment of the types of tables and indexes that Oracle offers including the appropriate times to use them and the trade-offs to weigh. Another key topic that he covers is redo and rollback. These features are handled in a unique way in Oracle, and a lack of understanding can lead to inefficient and incorrect databases and applications. Armed with the foundations, Kyte then takes the reader through performance tuning and optimizing databases. The best advice in this section is that performance cannot be thrown in at the end. The design decisions for a database will determine how it performs and scales. As he says, "There is no fast=true setting in the init parameters." Then the book tackles some more advanced features, such as autonomous transactions, dynamic sql, and C and Java extensions for stored procedures. Kyte again gives good advice for when these are appropriate over standard PL/SQL stored procedures. The size of the book can be intimidating at first glance, but it is pleasant to read. Kyte uses a conversational style rather than a lecturing delivery. This book has a lot to offer, and you won't find yourself tired after reading it.
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Summary: Best Oracle Book Ever!
Review: I've been developing Oracle applications for many years and have never found a book more resourceful than Tom's. It is packed full of valuable information and is a must have for anyone working with Oracle. It covers many aspects application development from a variety of languages including C, PL/SQL and Java. Most Oracle books are strictly for reference, this book makes for good reference but also is great reading and covers interesting concepts. Chapter 1 in this book is called "Developing Successful Oracle Applications" and is a must read. I recently found that my long running query was not properly using the index I created. I looked in Tom's book and found the answer to my problem under a section called "Why isn't my Index Getting Used?" What more could you ask for? If you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced programmer, or DBA this book is for you.
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Summary: Best book on Oracle period.
Review: Another 5 star review. I've used this book time and time again. Outstanding advice, a must-read before doing anything with Oracle. Does an excellent job of explaining WHY one should do something, very clear examples. This book takes away much of the mystery of how Oracle works.
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Summary: I would call him the Oracle Oracle !
Review: ... About the book... Great ! Tom is a very detail-oriented professional and his explanations are focused, complete and really make you understand the topics, want it or not ! Maybe a little basic for more advanced readers in some aspects, it is indeed an invaluable source of information you would rarely find in regular books. As Tom himself pointed out once in his site, it is not aimed at the mature DBA, since he has a strong development background, which might naturally take the focus off the management issues -- not discrediting him in this field at all. But you may have the feeling, as a forum participant commented: "Won't you write a book only for DBA's ?", in which case he explicitly suggests reading Jonathan Lewis' "Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases". It's worth to check this one out too ! Great book, rock-solid expertise... Congratulations !
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Summary: A treasure-trove of insights!
Review: This book attempts to cover dozens of subjects, and as such is 1,300 pages in length! Each subject contains gems of insight that had escaped me for some years now. I very much recommend this book if you are going to do any PL/Sql or Java coding. Read a chapter a day and really think about what Tom is saying. If you are really going to write industrial-strength code then you need this book, as Oracle Documentation and Oracle-Press books (I own several) tend to be quite shallow and omit explanations that Tom includes. If there is a downside, it is that only a few pages are dedicated to any one subject, meaning that while there are many gems, this is not a book to learn the basics from and it does not cover any one subject completely. But then again, I have not seen an Oracle book that does. I wish Tom would write an entire series of books of this quality; I would buy it in a heart-beat! P.S. Make sure that you get the 2003 version of this book from "APress", as I purchased one from the "New and Used" and got stuck with the 2001 version from "Oracle Press". Apparently Amazon does not require such disclosure.
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Summary: Surperb
Review: I have the edition of this book published by Wrox. This is absolutely one of the best technical books I've done read. The writing style is great, the examples and sample code are wonderful, and the material range is broad. Tom Kyte is an Oracle god.
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Summary: Brilliant - Outstanding - Beyond Compare
Review: This is a must for anyone using Oracle Developer - DBA - Architect - Manager. Every page in this book is worth an explanation. Cannot complete in the allocated 1000 words for the review. If you use Oracle you should have this book.
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Summary: Excellent Oracle Book
Review: The Expert One-On-One is the best Oracle book that I purchased.
It really tell you lots of Oracle detail.
Even the author said the book is for Oracle developer, it is a very good book to DBA as well.
However, this book has some typing error. If the auditor can correct thos errors, this book will be perfect.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Tom, Once again you gave the abundance of your technical knowledge to others...Great Job!!!!I am still reading and practising the examples, the book. Great Job!!!
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Summary: Excellent Oracle Overview
Review: This is one of the best Oracle overviews available. A good guide for the DBA, it assumes some knowledge of SQL. Especially instructive for the DBA who needs to know what not to do!
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