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Summary: Every DBA needs this book!
Review: This is a GREAT book! I can't believe it has taken this long for someone to write it, but this book really does live up to it's title: THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE. It has EVERYTHING I need to know in one place, without having to wade through tons of meaningless text designed to fill pages. This one is a bargain at any price!
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Summary: An excellent reference book!
Review: This is an excellent reference book. I am an experienced Oracle DBA and I use it as a quick reference. The topics are well organized and to the point. David Kreines and Brian Laskey have done an excellent job.
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Summary: An excellent reference book!
Review: This is an excellent reference book. I am an experienced Oracle DBA and I use it as a quick reference. The topics are well organized and to the point. David Kreines and Brian Laskey have done an excellent job.
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Summary: Corrections and recommendations needed.
Review: We r trying to upgrade from 8.0.5 to 8.1.5 and this book was not helpful. It contains hundreds of pages copied directly from the Oracle 8.0 documentation which we already had. Usually the copied text is changed very slightly like adding or removing commas. For some reason the recommendations Oracle gives are not always copied into the book so sometimes you r left with explanations from Oracle without the matching recommendation.Hopefully the authors will post corrections somewhere. They've managed to copy in some of Oracle's errors as well as adding in their own like calling CTXSYS a "demo account". They should try dropping it and seeing how their context applications start failing. Bottom line this isn't essential it's sometimes wrong and for r upgrade it wasn't even helpful.
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Summary: This is THE book that Oracle DBA's have been waiting for.
Review: What Laskey and Kreines have done in this single volume is amazing. Finally, a text that not only has the answers to the things I encounter on a daily basis, but they are organized so I can find them! Thank you from all of us working DBAs!!!
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