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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
EAN num: 9780782126846
ISBN number: 0782126847
Label: Sybex Inc
Manufacturer: Sybex Inc
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 770
Printing Date: September 01, 2000
Publishing house: Sybex Inc
Sale Popularity Level: 656565
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The DBA (database administrator) track is the most popular, with more than 8,000 DBAs being certified each year. Sybex's OCP DBA Study Guides provide complete coverage of exam objectives for the five exams in the DBA track: SQL and PL/SQL, Architecture & Administration, Backup & Recovery, Performance Tuning, and Network Administration. The books are fully up-to-date for Oracle8i and include all the new features of Sybex's best-selling Study Guides. The companion CDs contain exclusive self-testing software. The DBO (database operator) exam is a new offering from Oracle, which prepares students for the full DBA track. It is fully supported by Oracle's partners: Sun, Novell, Compaq, and HP. Sybex's Study Guide provides complete coverage of the exam objectives and includes a companion CD with exclusive self-testing software.
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I enjoyed reading this presentation of the Oracle software even though it contained many typographical errors. It was like sitting down with a senior software engineer and having him explain how the software works.
My only disappointment was with the included CD containing practice tests. I had to have the CD replaced because it was shipped before it was tested. The replacement CD would not install on my PC using the instructions in the readme file. It appears no one tested the instructions. I don't understand why the publisher is unwilling to test the product before shipping it. I was able to run the tests directly from the CD, however this was much noiser than running from disk.
This book is still better than what Oracle provides, even with the CD problems.
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You can pass your exams if you rely only on this book, but you won't have a comfortable margin. The performance tuning section is the stronger of the section, and would give it 5 stars. I didn't find errors, and did pass the performance tuning exam with 58 out of 59.
The network section is why I gave the book an overall rating of three stars. There are errors (like explaining how to use connection pooling with connection concentration), typos, wrong commands, obvious -if- you knew the material. If you didn't know the material, the errors were confusing. There were also errors in the test sections. One or two errors may not seem like a big deal unless it's the difference between passing the test or not. I got the impression that the person who wrote the networking section didn't really know the nuts and bolts of networking. For networking I'd recommend The Exam Cram Book; accurate, to the point, easy to understand, written by someone who knew her stuff. I passed the networking exam, 55 out of 59, but reading the Exam Cram and reviewing the Oracle documentation would have been sufficient.
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I'd like to say this book is good but not excellent. Divided into 2 parts, Performance Tuning and Network Administration. You can rely on Network Administration part to make you pass the exam without using other preparation kit. But for the Performance Tuning part, I accept that it's not quite complete. Don't be surprised if you find some questions in the exam ask about something that never stated in this book.But may be you have no choice since I've never seen Performance Tuning material that cover all of the exam ( even from Oracle Press). Anyway, you still can pass it ( like me) but not so good score.Just read it carefully
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I scored 54 out of 57 on the 8i Performance and Tuning exam using this book. The explainations in that section are better than in any other book I've used. I also used the Self Test Software and some notes I found on-line to get fully prepared.
The Network Admin portion of the book is good too, but there seems to be a lot more errors in that part. Also some of the examples confused me, but perhaps that was due to the errors, I don't know. Better supplement this book with another reference, just in case.
This book is heavy and bulky, so it isn't something I'd want to tote around. Wish they didn't bundle two books together. On the whole it is a great book; if not for the errors in it, I'd have given it 5 stars.
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My Performance Tuning exam study was completely based on this book and I passed. However, I had a few surprises on the exam; there were certain things that were not even mentioned in the book. I did 80%. For my previous exams, I'd used books in this series but I had also studied Oracle lecture notes and I had made more than 90%. For Performance Tuning exam, don't forget to study the MTS chapter, which is in the Network Administration section of the book. There will be several questions on the subject.
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