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  • Paperback: 768 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS; Pap/Cdr edition (1 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590595300
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590595305
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This is a defining book on the Oracle database for any developer or DBA who works with Oracle-driven database applications. Tom has a simple philosophy: you can treat Oracle as a black box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment. If you choose the latter, then you will find that there are few information management problems that you cannot solve quickly and elegantly. Expert Oracle Database Architecture is the first of a three-book series that completely explores and defines the Oracle database. It covers all of the most important Oracle architecture features, including:     Files, memory structures and processes     Locking and latching     Transactions, concurrency and multi-versioning     Tables and Indexes     Datatypes     Partitioning and parallelism Each feature is taught in a proof-by-example manner, not only discussing what it is, but also how it works, how to implement software using it, and the common pitfalls associated with it. This fully revised edition covers both the 9i and 10g versions. It also comes with a CD containing a searchable PDF of the 8i version of the book. Tom has fully revised and expanded the architecture-related sections from Expert One-on-One Oracle (a searchable PDF of which is included on the CD accompanying this book), and added substantial new material. He focuses solely on 9i and 10g architecture in this book and refers to the CD for 8i-specific details. The number of changes will surprise you. In summary, this book provides a one-stop resource containing deep wisdom on the design, development and administration of Oracle applications, written by one of the world's foremost Oracle experts, Thomas Kyte.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely useful and informative, 3 Jan 2006
I think you will find this book extremely useful and enlightening whether you've been involved with Oracle for years, or are a relative newcomer (although it would help to have a basic knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL beforehand). Its treatment of the subect matter is clear, concise, well-explained, and will save you hours of documentation trawling and experimentation.

Although it's aimed primarily at developers, it would also be helpful to anybody trying to learn the DBA side of the job, as its explanation of the Oracle database architecture is the best and clearest I've seen so far. It's also all in one place; not spread out amongst half a dozen different manuals.

I think if you're interested in being all you can be as an Oracle developer, you should buy this book. If you're a contractor and have an interest in giving contracting a good name, you should buy this book. If you're mainly a backup and recovery DBA who doesn't venture into the archtitecture that much, you should buy this book. If you want more of an understanding of how the Oracle database works, you should buy this book.

Alternatively, if you'd like to give people like me more opportunities to rake in the cash by fixing performance problems, then please don't buy this book. ;o)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars even better than the previous edition, 2 Nov 2005
By Alberto Dell'era (Milan, Italy) - See all my reviews
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Since this book is the first volume of the second edition of "expert one-on-one: Oracle", which I've been reading and re-reading for years, I will review the book by comparing it with the previous edition, hoping to help people who are considering to "upgrade".

First thing - if in the first edition you enjoyed the great writing style, the everything-backed-by-examples approach, and the handling of real-life scenarios coming from the (oustanding) experience of the Author ... great news for you: everything is still there, this edition matches (or even surpasses) the first as far as quality is concerned.

Second, I've found a lot of new topics/chapters that are brand-new, not to be found in the first edition; for example the coverage of "write consistency", the excellent chapter about "datatypes", the "parallel execution" one - in addition, obviously, to the coverage of new features and objects of 9i/10g (automatic pga management, assm, index/table compression, sorted hash clustered tables, to name just a few).

Third, the vast majority (90% or more) of the topics/chapters already present in the first edition have been improved (expanded and/or rewritten for better readability), with new examples and new scenarios - I particularly loved the new discussion about the log buffer/buffer cache interdependencies, the fresh section about "indexing myths", the use of statspack to show the impact of not using bind variables, the new ways to implement optimistic locking, and many others (there are too many to discuss, it really looks like a brand new book - a real "new edition", not just a "new version").

In short - lots of new material, first-edition stuff much improved - I couldn't ask for more or better.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference, 25 Jul 2006
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As usual Tom has written an excellent book that works well when read straight through or as a reference to dip into.

One criticism, and this is a criticism of the publisher, not the author. There is very little 'white space', white space (margins &c) is important in text books for psychological reasons and also to give you somewhere to jot notes (hence the phrase "Notes in the margin"), opportunity to do this is very limited in this book due to lack of space.
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