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Oracle Database 10g OCP Certification All-In-One Exam Guide (Oracle Database 10g Handbook) by Damir Bersinic, John Watson Highly recommended! | I am currently enrolled in CCCCD for Oracle Database Management. This book is very thorough and helpful in understanding what I need to know to reach my goal of certification. It is easy to read and understand. |
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OCP: Oracle 10g Certification Kit (1Z0-042 and 1Z0-043) by Tim Buterbaugh, Chip Dawes, Bob Bryla | Well written, clear and easy to read.
Sample tests are accurate and helpful in preparing for the real thing. |
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Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) by David James, Simon Russell, Graham H. Seibert | I bought this book because I was trying to teach myself enough to become a Financials Developer. This still MIGHT be the right book for me. However, this is not a step by step guide to the installation. In addition, the book assumes some familiarity with accounting systems. |
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Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) by John Garmany, Donald K. Burleson Highly recommended! | I used this book to deploy Oracle Application Server 10g infrastructure on Linux and UNIX. I felt that it was a good book and overall I have little ill to say about it. The examples are well written and do a good job of reinforcing what you read in the handbook. You read a little then do an example, then read some more... |
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OCA: Oracle 10g Administration I Study Guide (1Z0-042) by Chip Dawes, Bob Bryla, Joseph C. Johnson | ...and I'm a picky guy.
Seriously, this book has a clear concise language, is structured well, and has a wealth of examples, screenshots and very good diagrams. What it luckily doesn't have: The occasional corny episodes other technical book authors include, like: In 1984 I had an incident when a customer stuck his finger in the floppy drive, and... |
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Oracle JDeveloper 10g Handbook by Avrom Roy-Faderman, Peter Koletzke, Paul Dorsey Highly recommended! | This latest edition for Oracle10g JDeveloper builds on the success of the previous 9i version. As with the previous version, each chapter is well organized with thorough and accurate examples. Well thought-out attention has been given to explaining Oracle's Application Development Framework (ADF). The authors also go ...
In short, this book as been well received by myself and colleagues I work with and would highly recommend it to anyone getting started in developing Oracle based applications with JDeveloper. I have found no better resource and tutorial for understanding ADF. Regards, -- jeff --------------------------------------- Jeffrey Hunter, OCP Senior Database Administrator http://www.idevelopment.info --------------------------------------- |
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OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide by Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas |
I just passed the 1z0-007 exam yesterday. I dont have a lot of experience with oracle, but this book helped me learn all the important concepts for the exam and helped me pass it in my first attempt. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking to pass the exam. However, the usefulness of this book ends there. It is not very useful and the explanations are not detailed enough for learning more about the technology itself. |
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Oracle SQL by Example, Third Edition by Alice Rischert Highly recommended! | You will like this book! I knew absolutely nothing about SQL, but this book will put your mind at ease. The author is easygoing and writes what could be a very tough topic in a non-intimating way. Believe me, this book will quickly become your best friend when it comes to learning SQL/Oracle. This book is so ...
Now the downside: I would say the only confusing part is uploading the tutorial database (which you have to do from the author's website. It will take a little brainpower and a few aspirin because the directions on the author's website assume some previous knowledge. But trust me; you will eventually get it to work. I should tell you that it would be helpful, not necessary, but helpful to know a little bit about relational databases (like MS Access) before you tackle Oracle. Anther thing to know is that the author tells you that you need the Standard or Professional full editions, which would be very expensive and only necessary if you own a Fortune 500 company! But, thankfully, you do not need the full versions. All you need is the Express Edition to practice on and the book tutorials are well suited to it. The Express Edition is free software downloadable from Oracle's website, and really, it's all the casual hobbyist needs anyway and it's plenty powerful. Now, for those who are not familiar with Oracle, it has a completely different look and feel from ...like MS Access, for example. Oracle looks like DOS and initially feels just as clunky. But, it will grow on you. You also can apply the SQL concepts to Microsoft SQL Server if you want to learn another DB. So if you are really serious and dedicated about learning databases, and don't mind a difficult initial set up, buy this book. |
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Oracle9i: The Complete Reference by Kevin Loney, George Koch | I'm a Oracle DBA and this is a great reference book. I use it so much that it does not get back to the bookshelf. A book to learn how oracle works it is not but a complete quick coverage of everything that an oracle 9i database can do. The only thing I have found better might be Oracle's own docs. But when you are ...
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Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Third Edition by Benjamin Rosenzweig, Elena Silvestrova Highly recommended! | I'm a developer and DBA who had not written PL/SQL in over a year. I used this book as a refresher.
This is the "Learning Perl" of PL/SQL, meaning: a beginner can learn from it, and an experienced hack can use it as a reference. I consider lots of good sample code to be important when learning a programming language. Here it is, as a series of labs, with intelligent discussion. It's like having a friend who's an expert act as a personal tutor. It has complete, well-rounded coverage of PL/SQL fundamentals: control structures, stored ... It is nearly the quality of Oracle course materials, but with (a tolerable amount of) typos. Annoyingly, some of the typos are incorrect answers in the appendix; the rest are obvious typos and therefore not too confusing. Chapter 1 is deceptively basic, explaining what a program is, what a programming language is, etc., but chapter 2 jumps right into PL/SQL with no further ado. The book progresses in baby steps as far as PL/SQL is concerned. Although knowledge of SQL is assumed, some concepts like commit & rollback, savepoints, and sequences are introduced and explained for beginners. It is also assumed that the reader: - knows what DML, DDL, and the DUAL table are; - has an account that can create objects (the "Scott" demo account will do); and - knows how to connect to the database with SQL*Plus or a development tool (IDE). With an IDE I was able to work through it in about thirty hours. I just read chapters I was already strong in without working those labs, but that time included plenty of puttering and experimenting with the lab material I did work. I also bought 10g "PL/SQL Programming" by Urman, et. al. but dove into this book first. The two books overlap. The freely available "PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference" from Oracle is still a must-have. Densely packed with pertinent information and very little else, it's about 99% useful information. Like the blurb says, "Just the facts." It is a complete Oracle course, so it was worth $2400 in that respect. |
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Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management by Bastin Gerald, Nigel King, Dan Natchek Highly recommended! | While Gerald & Co's book may look like a good introduction to Oracle's manufacturing & supply chain management modules, it will make little sense to those who have never used the system or don't have access to it. Because I had three years of hands-on experience with Oracle's E-Business Suite, the book is useful and I...
Things that Gerald & Co. could have done better: more illustrations of what they write about. There are many "bells and whistles" in the software, but the book doesn't have enough "screen shots" to show you where they're located on an Oracle "form." I'm not satisfied with the case study, which they have placed in chapter 22. There are no screen shots there either. Gerald & Co. are assuming you can navigate and know a lot of the Oracle lingo. If you are new to this, don't expect to learn it from this book. The audiences for the book are intermediate and advanced users. One could also regard this as a reference book. Use it to answer problems you encounter while using the product or better understand what's going on. In this context, I'd rate it 3 stars, too. |
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OCP Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (Oracle Press) by Sam Alapati | This is the only guide you need to pass the exam. It may not have the depth, but it covered the objectives well.
Then again, what kind of depth does one require for ASM? I've not seen it in use yet here. |
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Implementing Database Security and Auditing: Includes Examples for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase by Ron Ben Natan Highly recommended! | The book is very practical and timely; it contains the complex of useful rules either dispersed in many different sources or not published at all. For example my colleague who is a DB Oracle administrator in Sony Computer Entertainment distinguished the following recommendations:
· Hardening Oracle environment · Avoiding the use of mod_plsql · Not making a database a web server and not store HTML pages in the database From my perspective the rules concerning Web services and cross-site scripting are the most valuable. Working on these applications I see how vulnerable is a database server due to some security holes; therefore avoiding the holes is important. |
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OCP Developer PL/SQL Program Units Exam Guide by Steve O'Hearn Highly recommended! | Amazing...great..those are the words for this book which i recently used for 1z0-147 exam which i passed with score 63/66.
After lot of research i used this book for 1z0-147 and i happily confirm that i made great choice. Most of the topics required for exam are covered except LargeObjects(LOB). Thanks a lot Steve for wonderful job.!!!!!!! |
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Oracle9i DBA Handbook by Kevin Loney, Marlene Theriault | First off, I purchased this book as I am taking a course in Relational Database Design using Oracle 9i. I had labs to do that involved setting up user accounts, giving/revoking permissions to tables, etc. THe "Complete Reference" didn't have the necessary information--some but not all. This book--the DBA Handbook--had ... |
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Sun Certified Web Component Developer Study Guide (Exam 310-081) (Oracle Press) by David Bridgewater | After I finished the first chapter self-test, and saw that there were two obvious errors in the answer key (questions 7 and 19), I considered buying another book. I searched for an errata listing for the book online, with no success. I emailed the author and techical editor. To his credit, David Bridgewater replied ...
The technical editor did not reply to my email. This comes as no surprise; perhaps she is embarrased at the poor job she did editing this book. She obviously did not give thorough consideration to the self-tests. I decided that I did not want to spend the time or money to get a different exam guide, and that 99% of the book was most likely accurate, and the errata are probably easy to spot (even if they are really annoying), so I trudged on. I regret that decision. I am now at the end of chapter 4, and have spotted a total of five major errors in the self-tests, and at least a dozen minor errors in the self-tests and the text of the chapters. Also annoying is the ambiguous wording in some of the self-test questions; some of the phrases used are open to interpretation, and should be worded to be less ambiguous. Without knowing how good or bad other SCWCD exam guides are, I'd feel pretty confident in recommending that you should probably go with a different study guide that this one. |
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OCA/OCP: Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals I Study Guide by Biju Thomas, Bob Bryla | Don't kid yourself. The 1Z0-031 is not an easy test, but reading this book helped me pass the test. If you are new to the profession, like me, then this book alone will not be enough.
I read this book once, understood MOST of what I read and then tried the test and failed. I then took an Oracle DBA class at a Community College and read two other books titled "Oracle 8i DBA Bible" and "Oracle 9i DBA Handbook". I also read Biju Thomas' book one more time, fully understood it and then I was able ... I highly recommend this book. I feel that if you can read and understand 99-100% of what Biju Thomas writes in "OCA/OCP: Oracle 9i DBA Fundamentals I" then you can pass the Oracle Exam. I also would not attempt the Exam without reading this book at least once. |
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Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming by Scott Urman | Its a very good book. covers all the finincial modules very well. Gives the whole flow of data in them. but the newer edition is even better it covers extra modules as well. wil help u in getting a wider view. So i would recomend u to go for the newer edition if u need a wider idea of diff modules |
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OCP: Oracle 10g New Features for Administrators Study Guide: Exam 1Z0-040 (Certification Study Guide) by Bob Bryla, Biju Thomas | Today I passed the OCP upgrade exam with a 52/60 score and this book is principally responsible. I used the practice exams to find holes in my knowledge and revisited the text in those areas. By the way, the 10g Upgrade exam is a lot more work than the last two upgrade exams. Prepare to spend more time studying. I have... |
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OCP: Oracle 10g Administration II Study Guide: Exam 1Z0-043 by Doug Stuns, Tim Buterbaugh, Bob Bryla | i have passed my ocp 10g exam last month, thanks to this book and bersinic & watson book (ocp all in one exam guide). i have to say overall this book is better than the admin I book also by sybex. the thing i like about this book is it covers more than the exam needs, e.g. how to create the rman recovery catalog, which... |
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OCP Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Exam Guide by Jason Couchman | This is the only book I used to prepare for the OCP 1Z0-007 exam. The Oracle published exam objectives were covered and the sample test questions on CD were good. Other than one or two SQL syntax surprises, I had no problems with the exam. This book may not be adequate if you are unfamiliar with databases, SQL, and ... |
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Conducting the Oracle Job Interview: IT Manager's Guide for Oracle Job Interviews with Oracle Interview Questions (Oracle In-Focus series) by Mike Ault, Donald K. Burleson | To find a good candidate and hire that person does take some homework for the person doing the hiring. You have to weed out the people who do not qualify immediately. This book gives you that help.
The book is a great guide in what to look for in and how to be a Oracle professional. Along with guidance on education, professional experience, personal appearance, the book provide sample questions that all Oracle DBAs should know. The candidate can use the questions as a review. The employer can use the ... Any employer looking for a quality candidate should buy this book. |
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Oracle9i: A Beginner's Guide by Michael Abbey, Michael J Corey, Ian Abramson | I read the reviews posted above, and was discouraged, but I needed an Oracle reference right away and this was the only book available at the library. Just as one person said, the first 2 chapters aren't wholly necessary and promote Oracle a lot. On the other hand, the book is printed by the Oracle Press. Chap. 3 ...
It is a lot at once for a true novice. I'm not so bad -- I had a pretty good crash course on relational DB ideas and SQL in 2 lectures of a web programming class once, for use with mySQL. This book is good enough to explain the Oracle side of things. And the writing isn't all that bad, i.e. it's more than just a copy of the manuals, IMO. It suits me well enough as an intro to the Oracle syntax and way of doing things. |
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OCA: Oracle Application Server 10g Administration I Study Guide (Exam 1Z0-311) by Bob Bryla, April Wells | No review available! |
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OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set by Jason Couchman, Rama Velpuri, Charles Pack | The 4 book set arrived 1 week earlier in great condition before all other Amazon Marketplace books ordered the same day. |
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OCP Oracle9i Database: Performance Tuning Exam Guide by Charles Pack Highly recommended! | I used this book to study for the exam. The explanations on this book is very good. The only fault on this book is the level of the questions. The questions on this book are very weak compared with the real exam. So, keep in mind that to think to take the exam, you will need to have a score upper than 90% on the test ...
I had take the test last week and a I pass on the exam with 82% score. To study I use this book and the Self Test Software. |
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OCA Oracle Application Server 10g Administrator Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-311) (Osborne Oracle Press) by Sam Alapati | The book is inadequate as a means to prepare for the OCA exam. |
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Oracle High-Performance SQL Tuning by Donald K. Burleson | It is a good book for those interested in the internals of sql. The knowledge of the author about the matter is excellent, and his writing style is clear, simple, and funny. |
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Conducting the Programmer Job Interview: The IT Manager Guide with Java J2EE, C, C++, UNIX, PHP and Oracle Interview questions! by Janet Burleson | This is another good book in the Job Interview series from Rampant. As with the other books, this book gives both the employer and the candidate guidance in areas such as work experience, personal appearance and education.
The questions that are provided in the book give a good base for the employer to ask the candidate. Of course, each company will need to modify or use only the questions that they will need. I would recommended this book to any employer or candidate seeking a programming job in one of the languages covered. |
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Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook by Donald K. Burleson | First, I would like to strongly disagree with one negative reviewer who claims this book contains many technical errors including the one comparing Unix and DOS commands. I have found the book contains virtually no technical errors.
If you are a ORACLE DBA who isn't too familiar with Unix or Linux, this is a very worthwhile book to read. Although it is not meant to make anyone a Unix\Linux guru, it is intended for the Oracle DBA who may lack fundamental competency in Unix\Linux. This book provides: 1)Unix Architecture and basic Unix syntax 2)monitoring Unix (CPU, Disk, Memory) 3)Network management in Unix (weakest portion of the book) 4)Interaction between Oracle and Unix server(could have been more comprehensive) 5)Unix Admninistration for the Oracle DBA( file, task, and profile management etc). 6)Many useful Korn Shell scripts (and how to create them) for ORACLE DBAs. If you already have medium to strong understanding of Unix\Linux, I recommend a book which is more focused on Unix\Linux to gain better mastery of the operating system. |
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OCP: Oracle9i Certification Kit by Chip Dawes, Biju Thomas, Doug Stuns | It is worth buying this set to use for the Oracle 9i track OCP exams.
*OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i SQL Study Guide (1Z0-007) Good book, it covers pretty much all the exam objectives. It is easy to read and easy to follow. But I prefer the sybex study for the exam (1Z0-001) which is an alternative to the exam (1Z0-007). Overall I give 5 stars for this book within the whole set. * OCA/OCP: Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals I Study Guide (1Z0-031) Very good! The content of the book is well-aligned with the exam objectives. It is easy to read and easy to follow. Can even be used as reference. I also give 5 stars for this book within the whole set. * OCP: Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals II Study Guide (1Z0-032) The only bad apple in the basket. This book does not account for all the exam objectvies outlined by the Oracle Certification Program. The book does covers some of the topics tested on the exam but not in depth to make you feel comfortable. I admit I gained some knowledge out of this. Overall it is not a complete... * OCP: Oracle9i Performance Tuning Study Guide (1Z0-033) Best book! Complete coverage of the exam objectives. The coverage is good and clear with many screenshots of codes. The only problem with this book is it does not follow the format of exam objectives. But you can still find your way out. Overall, I recommend it. I give 5 stars within the whole set. Finally, my suggestion is this: to maximize your chance and master the topic, try to get also the Oracle Press books. If you couple the Oracle Press books and the Sybex Study guide, you don't need the expensive practice test software. You will have plenty of questions you will increase your chance of passing the first time. |
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OCP: Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals II Study Guide by Doug Stuns, Matthew Weishan | You're not going to get certified with this book, but the CD is pretty good at testing your Backup and Recovery knowledge. The CD also quizzes you on Recovery Manager (RMAN), parameter files, Import, Export, SQL Loader and Listener Control utility. Everyone here is accurate; that Oracle DBA II test is very difficult to... |
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OCP Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals II Exam Guide by Rama Velpuri | I used this book for my exam (1z0-032). It is a good book, well-organized and detailed. It is far better than the sybex book that I used as supplement. The contents of the oraclepressbook are very closed to the Exam questions. The practice exams on the CD were very helpfull especially those questions related to ...
I will finish by thanking Rama Velpuri for the great job he did putting this Exam Guide together. Other than a bug in the software the guide deserves 4 stars from me. Thanks R. Velpuri DeKalb, IL 60115 |
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Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Relational Databases by Ramon Mata-Toledo, Pauline Cushman | It is cheap so you can buy it in any case. But still I think it will not worth to buy.
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Oracle Backup & Recovery 101 by | I thought this book was great! I really enjoyed the material and the analogies. I really get Oracle backup & recovery now. Forget about the typo's -- the material is what counts. |
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Oracle PL/SQL 101 by Christopher Allen Highly recommended! | This is a great book for the very beginner person who has no experience at all in SQL. It is very in details and very easy to understand. Unfortunately, I have to return this book since it is not what I am looking for. |
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OCP Oracle9i Database: Fundamentals I Exam Guide by Jason Couchman, Sudheer Marisetti | This book does not cover all the details for Fundamentals II. It is a good source for reference. The CD accompanied with the book has wrong answers for the questions. You may need to refer additional book(s), may be sybex one along with this one. |
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OCP: Oracle9i Performance Tuning Study Guide with CDROM by Joseph C. Johnson | Thanks to the author. I used this book for my last exam along with the oracle press book. The topic on the exam is completly covered but not according to checklist designed by oracle. But you can still find your way out. I have to admit that the book is really good I like it. It has sufficient details that help a lot. ...
Finally to candidates for the exam, expect to see a lot of questions on the views (performance & data dictionary), latch contentions, initialization parameters, IOT, and Index... |
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Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples by Gavin JT Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter Highly recommended! | I found the Oracle SQL Jumpstart with Examples an excellent Oracle review and reference book.
The authors have provided valuable SQL and general database information. The book covers SQL and basic database structure and syntax, and provides simple and easy to understand examples which are useful for building complex database elements. |
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