Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions

Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions is a must-have reference guide for all Oracle professionals. It provides much-needed information on best practices, tips, and techniques in debugging, installation, deployment, and tuning of the Oracle 10g database. You can draw upon the experience and knowledge of these authors to find creative ways to put your Oracle database to work. The authors will also address common and not-so-common installation concerns, database administration, development, and tuning. Oracle Database 10g Insider Solutions will bring you the insider information that you can't get anywhere else.

User review
Great book for Oracle DBAs supporting 10g
I have been an Oracle DBA for 15 years. So I know, no shop 'goes to the latest' release right away. And when they do move to it, they do it slowly.

Question - all of your production DBs on 11g (here in 1Q 2009)? Not likely, so I bet you have a lot of 10g in production. I bet its almost all still 10g. So, what book can help you with some features? This one.

Its a great book. I especially like the 'tone'. Its technical and not flowery. I like books that get to the point. I want to know how a feature works in real life - not a re-hash of the doc (read any of those types of books lately?).

It has 10gR2 stuff in it. I recommend you go to 10.2.0.4 ASAP.

The book has a nice flow, and fewer typos than most others. I hope other authors use this format/outline/flow/content as a model for new 11g books.

So, if you are supporting 10g, get this book. It is great.

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Best `How to` book on Oracle
This is the best `How to` book on Oracle. I have read around 20 books on Oracle (I reviewed most of them on Amazon) and this one is the most practical Oracle book for intermediate to advance Oracle DBAs.

The book skips most of the architecture and goes directly on how to configure and use some of the most salient features of Oracle 10g.

Some of the examples are:

1)How to manually install RAC instance
2)How to migrate Non-ASM to ASM disks and vice versa.
3)How to collect AWR reports using builtin scripts.
4)How to install CRS
5)How to Flashback Database and Flashback Table.
6)How to Patch Dataguard Instances
7)How to use flashback in Dataguard Standby.
8)How to manually remove Oracle Instances.
9)How to upgrade RMAN Catalog.
10)How to use Wait statistics to measure and improve performance.

Not all the topics are advanced. But it still helps to get down to the fundamentals, even for the advanced DBA with decade or more of experience.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to expand/improve their Oracle 10G skillset.

User review
Great Book to have
This is a really good book to have by an Oracle DBA for Oracle 10g reference. This book will help the Oracle DBA to identify and implement Oracle 10g new features. It has good tips for performance and tuning and setting up ASM. I give this book 5 star rating.

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Presents Material in a great way
This book covers Release 2 of Oracle 10G. Concepts are presented in a clear manner. Each chapter can read in an hour or so. This is a great place to start for new DBAs. For experience DBAs, this a great book to get to know the New Features. Book is very easily read. Best book to learn Oracle 10g R2.

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Excellent Book
Highly recommended reference book for DBA's that are familiar with previous version of Oracle and wants to find out the new features of 10g.