There are not a ton of Oracle Streams books out there. Kind of surprising considering the capabilities of this technology.

That said, this book is one of the few and it is not particularly good. The organization is not thought out. Its like they had a bunch of people write little sections and crammed it all into one book without consolidating. So rather than put all the information in one section - different aspects of a topic are throughout the book. Additionally, with a technical book like this, the INDEX is key. I don't know how many people read tech books cover to cover but I do not. I get the basics, start working, then refer to the index almost exclusively to find what to do next. This book is seriously lacking a good index. I cannot find most of what I am looking for in there.

Generally, this is the same type of (imho) garbage with which Burleson is spamming the discussion groups. I wish his organization would stop generating google hits. I can tell by the material they present that their goal is exposure for themselves, not educating the reader. I guess its always about exposure but good exposure = quality content, not quantity of topics / google hits. I mean, in this last year, I see more google hits from "The Burleson Group" than I do from Tom Kyte (asktom.oracle.com) who is an Oracle super-genius who takes the time to explore topics and even answer questions.

I like the book. It is concise and to the point. More troubleshooting information could have made it best ..

don't bother with this book. Read Oracle documentation before this book. There are mistakes in the scripts and user to run them.

I bought this book after reading Oracle documentation for couple of days.
Completely disappointed by it.
Only basic coverage which is not enough even to create sample replication.
90% of the materials are just copy/paste (with small rephrase) from Oracle Documentation.

Maybe I'm just dense, but reading and re-reading the Oracle documentation on Streams just did not do it for me. This was the only book I could find that appeared to have substantial detailed descriptions of how to use this product. I was not disappointed. It got me over the hump. He does assume a fair amount of understanding when he gets to downstream capture, but by the time I had worked out regular capture I had enough familiarity to piece it together. I have bought a lot of different books on Oracle; this was my first from Rampant publishing, so I was a little concerned, but it proved itself worth the money.

I'm glad this book was only $18 because if I'd paid more than that for it I would have been extremely upset. As it is, I have just reminded myself of why I tend to buy books for work from well know authors and publishers. This book is fine if you want to find out what Oracle Streams does, at a very vague, high level; anyone seeking to find out how to design, configure or implement a real Streams based application is wasting their time. The Oracle documentation is well written, relatively complete, and provides full feature documentation. This book provides nothing useful.

I'm glad this book was only $18 because if I'd paid more than that for it I would have been extremely upset. As it is, I have just reminded myself of why I tend to buy books for work from well know authors and publishers. This book is fine if you want to find out what Oracle Streams does, at a very vague, high level; anyone seeking to find out how to design, configure or implement a real Streams based application is wasting their time. The Oracle documentation is well written, relatively complete, and provides full feature documentation. This book provides nothing useful.

I really enjoyed this book on how to build and maintain an Oracle Streams environment since the documentation was dense and not as clear as this text. My favorite part of this book are the workshop examples and scripts on how to implement the new Streams based technology.

This is an excellent book on Oracle Streams. It is comprehensive, yet much easier to read than the manual. It distills the essential information one needs to get started with Streams, and can be used for reference later on. The writing is clear, concise and reflective of the author's real-world experience. I administer a Streams system in a very demanding environment, and have found this book very useful.

This is an excellent book on Oracle Streams. It is comprehensive, yet much easier to read than the manual. It distills the essential information one needs to get started with Streams, and can be used for reference later on. The writing is clear, concise and reflective of the author's real-world experience. I administer a Streams system in a very demanding environment, and have found this book very useful.

I disagree that this book is a rehash of the manuals. Once you get into it; it's clear that Tumma has really good, really real experience with streams. I bought his book after hearing him at IOUG where he makes it clear that he knows what he is doing. Just his tips on Streanms pitfalls are enough to justify the cost of this book.

It is good and precise,it explain all things need for Stream replication but it is very unorderd + lack of step by step example and don't specify which part is for Oracle 9i and which part is for oracle 10g

This book was a tremendous help to our shop as we deployed Streams to fulfill our replication requirements. Highly recommend it to anyone seeking to learn more about streams.

The Oracle documentation was easier to read, easier to understand and better organized than this book. This book provided me with nothing I didn't get faster and better from the Oracle doc, including the examples. It was a waste of my time which is much worse than the waste of my money.

As the editor for this book I was able to read the in-depth utility of Oracle Streams and see how it is going to be a super-hot technology. Oracle Streams is a great replacement for the older standby-database technology and it's is also a great alternative to Oracle RAC clusters when you need a synchronized database at a remote location.

Best of all, Oracle Streams is a great way to set-up a disaster recovery server, and also use the standby server to accept database traffic. Tumma did an exceptional job on this book and I highly recommend it for anyone considering Oracle Streams as a failover or disaster recovery solution.

Madhu's text goes far-beyond the nuts-and-bolts and he shares real-world secrets and techniques for using Oracle Streams in a mission-critical environment. If you need to understand high-speed Oracle replication, this is a must-have book.