Reviews for Oracle9i DBA 101 (Osborne Oracle Press Series)

1. Oracle9i DBA 101 - From A Trainers Perspective

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2002

   Oracle9i DBA 101 provides the aspiring DBA with all of the basic
   reference material needed for the job and is quite readable. I found from my own perspective as an Oracle Trainer and Education
   Curriculum specialist that the book could have had a better organisation and flow. The Architecure of the server as well as the topics on installation and configuration come a bit late in the book, after lessons on Dictionary and Dynamic Performance views.

   Furthermore the book attempts to cover some advanced topics in a cursory way often explaining very little about them. Examples of this are Advanced Security, OEM, DBMS_STATS, Stored Outlines, and
   the parts on the Optimiser.

   I found some of the technical content to be complicated by the explanations. The lesson on V$ views fails to explain that the dynamic performance views externalise content from the instance's
   memory structures rather than from the database, and needlessly
   examines the creation of synonyms for the v$views created in Catalog.Sql without explaining the reason why these sysnonyms are there in the first place.

   I believe that had the book stuck to the Basics, it would have been a better buy for the first time DBA