Reviews for Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g

1. oracle primer

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2009

   Usefull as an intro. Would be better if they concentrated on one release and stuck to the basics rather than covering all the functionality in Oracle. Too much ground is covered in too little detail.

2. An excelent book for a Unix Admin

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2008

   This is an excelent book for a Unix Admin that needs a good knowledge of how Oracle works to more efficiently administrate DB Servers on Unix platforms. It covers important topics on performance and high availability that are very helpfull for a Unix Admin

3. Excelent introduction

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2008

   I started reading this book with certain expectations. I work daily with Oracle so I always felt the need to know more about certain aspects of the database itself and the way things work in the background. This book started a bit disappointing, because the initial chapters seem like a shopping list of features, stating thoroughly all the features that are available with this version of Oracle (that's the reason of only four stars).
   
   However, past that initial and overly long listing, the book becomes very interesting and, more importantly, goes directly to the point. I can't say that I knew much Oracle to start with, so this book helped me in two ways: by explaining the basics of this DBMS and going to the trouble of even to remind me of some basic database concepts. The chapters become more and more complete, as you read, making the reader see Oracle more like an application suite than a dedicated DBMS.
   
   I strongly recommend this book to all those starting to use Oracle, as an excellent introduction to the more simple and complex aspects of this application.

4. disappointing

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2005

   This book can probably justify its cost by removing the 10g bit from its title.
   There is very little information about 10g [except Appendix A, which is simply defn of terms]. In general, this book is very shallow.
   I was completely disappointed.