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Summary: The best Oracle book out there
Review: I read just about every Oracle book that comes out for DBAs and some of the ones for developers, and this is the best all-around resource on the market. Tom Kyte's combination of thorough coverage of what you need to get the most out of the Oracle RDBMS with brilliant code that he casually drops in along the way makes this book more than worth its weight in gold. If you are using Oracle, buy this book.
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Summary: Awesome Developer How-To
Review: Wow! The long awaited "How-To" book for Oracle Developers from the master. Not only does TK explain what everything is, he gives examples and suggests where the technology is applicable and where it should not be used.Developers should be sleeping with this book under their pillow. DBAs will gain some knowlege from this book, but some of the chapters can be skipped. Although there were some editing errors, the book is pleasant to read. The small font was not a joy to read, but the 1250+ pages probably justify it.
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Summary: A fountain of information
Review: I knew this book would be great after reading just the foreword -Tom makes it clear that his intention is to go beyond explaining how to use a certain feature and tell you when you should actually consider using it. DBAs should not be fooled into thinking this is a "programmer's only" book - it's chockful of great tips for admins too. The discussion on bind variables and locally managed tablespaces are worth the cover price alone; not to mention the clever SQL*PLUS login tip in the setup!
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Summary: Brutally helpfull
Review: Iam working on partitioning large tables as a part of my work. I had hundreds of questions in my mind, when I started on the project. Fortunately I got to buy this book, and I havent looked back since them. Tom has covered the partitioning chapter from every angle and aspect. Especially his explanation on prefixed and non prefixed local indexes and global indexes is superb. After a long time, infact after Jonathan Lewis's Practical Oracle 8i this is the first time Iam enjoying a book on oracle so much. Good work Tom, Keep it up.
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Summary: excellent!!!
Review: This book was excellent. A must have!! the code was easy to follow and had great code examples.
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Summary: The Oracle Book!
Review: Finally the hope and salvation of countless despirate newgroup pleading developers and DBAs is in paperback. No other Oracle book gives the details or the real world scenarios.
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Summary: So good its scary
Review: Because its a Wrox book you get the customary miniscule font, and the author's eyes on the cover following you around the room, but suddenly building a successful Oracle project got a whole lot easier. If you want to take advantage of the best Oracle development resource on the planet, then don't let a developer loose on your project until they've read this book
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Summary: For Programmers, This is the Best Oracle Book Ever.
Review: If you are an Oracle programmer, or a DBA that works with programmers (and has to tell them all the things that they are supposed to know), this the best book you can buy. There are books by people that can program, and books by writers who can write but don't quite understand what they are writing about and there are a million other faults a book could have, but this book has none of them. Tom Kyte is at the very top of Oracle programming and he is a teacher who wants you to be able the do the same thing. Every topic in this book "reaches the ground". Tom starts from setting up your environment, and takes you through many high level exercises, showing you how to make it work, every single step of the way. He is teacher like W. Richard Stevens and Steve Rago. There is too much to describe it all but as an example, there is a 70 page section on writing a C-Based external procedure. It starts with six pages of setting up your environment (listener, schema, server, exproc program, libraries), then the code in PL/SQL and C, how to make it, how to install it, how to test it, and ends with the answer to every error message you might get if you make a mistake. The applications discussed are not just "interesting" and they don't just "work". There is a recurring theme in all of the applications and that is this: they scale. Tom has sections on bind variable, and then more on bind variables, and then more on bind variables, until the idea is branded on you that a "working" application is trivial unless it scales. You aren't writing code for developers, but for end users who may do millions of transactions a day; that is the kind of code you want. If you already know everything, you will learn more, but either way Tom's projects are complete, and well documented; you can learn this. This is great book, you will read all 1200 pages.
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: This is a very important book for Oracle developers. It develops the thesis that database applications should seek to exploit the chosen database's strengths rather than attempting to be database independent. The author has a very clear understanding of Oracle's strengths and he explains them in a way that will inspire and motivate you to make the most of them. You'll never want to touch a different database again! The author also tells many cautionary tales about the perils of ignorance. There are many things about the Oracle database that you do not need to know, but there are some that are vital to your success as an Oracle developer. This book tells you what is important, and seldom bores you with what is not. If you read this book and take it to heart, you will avoid many pitfalls that could otherwise make your project fail.
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Summary: Best Oracle book by an expert
Review: Undoubtly, this is the one of best oracle book ever written.
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