Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

Understanding, using, and administrating an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) can be a daunting task, even with Oracle8, Oracle's new object-oriented RDBMS. This fact-filled book provides step-by-step coverage of Oracle8 architecture, managing database storage, security, backup, recovery and tuning, and optimization.

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Basically a wizards how-to-book.
This book does nothing more than teaches one how to use the Oracle wizards to create tables, users, etc,,. If your new to Oracle, you should learn the syntax of the command lines even thought your in a NT environmet.

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Review of 'Teach Yourself Orcle 8 in 21 Days' by Ed Whalen
This is one of two books I bought as part of a package 'Oracle JDeveloper Suite Personal Edition 1.1' put out by Oracle/MacMillan Digital Publishing USA. The package comprises two disks : Oracle JDeveloper 1.1/Oracle Application Server 4.0.7/Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.0.5. The books are absolutely useless and I had to find four other books to learn how to install and how to use the package. It is not the normal style of Teach Yourself books where one can learn by matching what is in the book. I am afraid this book puts me off from anymore Teach Yourself books by SAMS.

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This book contains serious errors
There is a section in this book that claims that Oracle does not write to datafiles that are in hot backup mode. Although this is a common misconception, it is nevertheless false.

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Just say NO !!!
Unlike other `21 days` texts, this book is not a tutorial that you can follow in front of your terminal or workstation. Many of the examples don't work at all. Did anybody at the publisher actually go through the book to see if any of this stuff makes sense? Obviously not. The only thing you'll learn (and in less than 21 days I might add) is that this book is a waste of time and a source of frustration. The book is geared toward Oracle8 on Windows NT 4. If you're running NT 4, skip this book and try `Oracle8 & Windows NT Black Book`. Now that's a good book.

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Superficial summary of Oracle 8
This book is a superficial overview of the Oracle 8.0.4 database. It is a disjointed overview of it's features. It just skips lightly from subject to subject in a seemingly ramdom order. The first 3 chapters are good, it goes quickly downhill after that. It's more appropriate for a management overview rather than for showing someone new to Oracle how to install and configure the product.