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Tom Kyte has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter course, then you will find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly.
Tom has selected the most important features and techniques and he teaches them in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing the features available, but also how to implement software using them and indicating the potential pitfalls. This book covers: |
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Tom Kyte is of a rare breed. To begin, he's technically expert in his subject (administration of and development of applications for Oracle database management systems). What's more (and what distinguishes him from the ranks of the super-competent), he is both able and willing to share his considerable store of wisdom with Oracle users via books like Expert One on One: Oracle. Perhaps the best book about Oracle products ever put out, this book is a model of all aspects of technical publishing: scope, level of detail, clarity of explanations, and quality of examples. It's pretty much certain that you will learn a great deal about Oracle from Kyte's work, and that you'll become more capable in your work as a result of studying this book.
Kyte--it's very tempting to call him an Oracle oracle--seems not to have had to struggle to fit his message into the Wrox Press form, which relies on a running commentary interspersed with code listings and conceptual diagrams. Kyte's commentary is eminently informed and packed with references to the differences between that which is ideal and that which often must be done to accommodate reality. He takes care to explain how little-known pieces of the Oracle environment--and alternative ways of looking at the more familiar ones--solve problems, an approach that leads to elegant, efficient solutions. Kyte boosts his readers across the chasm that separates people who can write applications for Oracle databases from people who understand Oracle databases. --David Wall Topics covered: Deep wisdom on developing applications for Oracle database management systems, as well as plenty of advice on designing and administering them. There are sections on general design and implementation practices, application architecture, locking and concurrency, transactions and rollbacks, importing and exporting, and lots more of interest to developers. |
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Expert One-on-One Oracle offers the knowledge required for both those who build applications that run against the Oracle database and those who administer the database. It is critical that the DBA knows what the developers are trying to accomplish and the best developers know how to exploit the DBA's data management strategies. Tom Kyte has a simple philosophy: You can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter, then you will find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly. Kyte has selected the most important features and techniques to discuss in Expert One-on-One Oracle and he teaches in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing the features available, but also how to implement software using these features and indicating potential pitfalls. |
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| 01-03-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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This is the kind of book that every Oracle dba and every Oracle developer should read to better understand how an Oracle database is made up and how it works.
It's a book in order to store in your bookshelf, and back to it every time you need to review a concept about Oracle architecture. What makes Tom Kyte's books different from other authors? All the topics are explained by mean of examples (Demonstrations with empiric data), and hence, there is no place for doubts. It's a masterpiece! (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-01-25 16:00:43 EST)
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| 06-16-06 | 5 | 4\4 |
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I bought this book on cheap clearance after the original publisher went out of business -- the best $12 I ever invested. Remembering even 10% of this book makes you better than 90% of Oracle developers, modelers and architects. Mr. Kyte's real world experience and reliance on solid examples instead of folklore makes this light-years ahead of any other Oracle book; it's the only Oracle book I re-read regularly. If you can afford only one Oracle book, this is it. And you may not need any other.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-30 06:56:37 EST)
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| 03-14-06 | 4 | (NA) |
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A true masterpiece, and a great way to learn Oracle concepts. No more to say.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 02-28-06 | 5 | (NA) |
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Thick Oracle book which is intended for developers who might need to understand the Oracle internals and administration parts besides writing SQL. It's useful for them working in other database also as the general database concept is simlar. Developers can now have more DBA knowledges after reading before on-going performing some DBA task.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 01-12-06 | 5 | 0\4 |
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Gr8 stuff for all the Oracle ppl.
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| 12-29-05 | 5 | 2\2 |
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I have been an Oracle DBA for about six years and this book is still the one I turn to when looking for deeper insight into tough Oracle problems. The author recently published a new book on 9i and 10g and that one is also quite excellent. When it comes to analysis and clear writing style, no one can beat Tom Kyte for excellence. Highly recommended.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 12-06-05 | 5 | 1\1 |
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The signature edition of Thomas Kyte's Expert Oracle provides well over a thousand pages and comes from one of the leading professionals in the industry. Kyte develops Oracle database software and runs the 'Ask Tom' column in its magazine: his expertise lends to an insider's in-depth guide to programming solutions for Oracle versions 7.3 through 8.1.7. From fine-tuning tools and strategies to partitioning techniques, global indexes, C-based externals and more, Expert Oracle should be a mainstay on the shelves of any serious computer programmer.
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| 09-23-05 | 3 | 5\5 |
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I was not thorough enough in checking this book out before I ordered it (which is my fault). While Mr. Kyte offers some great ideas, it is very disappointing that this book which was published in 2005 covers only up to version 8.1.7. For this reason, I would not recommend purchasing it. There are other books available from other expert Oracle authors that are more current up to version 10g.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 05-22-05 | 4 | 12\13 |
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[A review of the 2nd EDITION 2005.]
If you follow the database field, you will know of IBM having published a series of books explaining the details of DB2. These have been well received by DB2 users and are probably considered authoritative on it. Seems like Kyte is doing the same here, with regard to Oracle. The book is offered with comprehensive, fine-grained explanations of much that Oracle's databases can do. The book is also structured to be more than a (heavy) reference tome. You should be able to teach yourself Oracle from scratch using it, and assuming only a prior knowledge of generic relational theory and SQL. Regarding the book's size, Kyte points out that the official, full Oracle documentation spans some 10 000 to 20 000 pages. In a nod towards a common situation, chapters are supplied for writing C or Java procedures. Databases have to interface with the real world and these languages are often used. Some of you will like Kyte's preference for writing Java code instead of C. The only puzzle is that the book explains up to Oracle 8.1.7. Yet Oracle's top version is now 10g, which has been out for over a year. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 05-20-05 | 5 | 1\5 |
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This hefty (1200 pages) work covers a wide variety of very advanced Oracle topics. Direct access through OCI, Java stored procedures, materialized views, object oriented extensions, performance tuning, bulk data import and more are presented at varying levels of detail. The subjects are always covered well with excellent use of expository text and graphics.
Of all of the advanced Oracle books I've read lately this one is the most accessible, as well as the most relevant to the applications that I have had in the past. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 04-21-05 | 5 | 2\5 |
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We all know how good he is! In some areas, asktom.oracle.com is more useful than metalink itself .
This book is the best book available on Oracle. Though written for 8i, I think most of the content is version independent, and will hold good as long as Oracle is a RDBMS. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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| 03-20-05 | 5 | 3\3 |
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A must read book for DBA's and developers... Usually books on Oralce are either written from development prospective or administration... But this book clearly indiciates relationship between Administration and development.. Best part of this books is it gives you proof of every claim present in book.. He has also discussed all the common and un-common errors people make in developing applications. User level defined for this book is Intermediate-Advance... But that way he has defined Oracle architecture in chapter 2, this can be a very good book for bigeners. Only book apart from this book which can give u a better picture of Oracle architecture is Oracle concept guide. But still way of presenting architecture in this book is much much better.. Last but not least this book tells what you should do and what you should not do, in order to design better application and manage Oracle server for applications to perform well...
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-03-19 10:08:50 EST)
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