Effective Oracle by Design (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) at Dominant Systems Book Store

Tom Kyte of Oracle Magazine's Ask Tom column has written the definitive guide to designing and building high-performance, scalable Oracle applications. The book covers schema design, SQL and PL/SQL, tables and indexes, and much more. From the exclusive publisher of Oracle Press books, this is a must-have resource for all Oracle developers and DBAs.

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Of course, the best Oracle book ever is "Expert One-on-One Oracle" also by Tom Kyte, but being second is still being a head and shoulders above any other Oracle book. Tom's books, both of them, really do show you how to be successful with Oracle. Again and again, chapter after chapter, he shows you how find the information, how to create packages, and how to test. If you did nothing but type in the examples he gives you on testing (they all work, by the way), you would easily justify buying both this book and dinner for Tom (which is not required). There are few books that boost your skills by a quantum measure, but this is one. Tom's emphasis on testing at a low level of development, is the only way to insure that you are not wasting money on a non scalable application. Most of us do not know how easy it is to do small-time and big-time bench marking, so it does not get done often enough. This book shows you every step, from setting up your environment, to tests that really work. There is nothing missing that would keep you from understanding what he is doing, why it is meaningful, and how you can do the same thing. Tom does not assume you have any particular knowledge, he shows you how, in a way that engineers of any level can follow. One thing the book does not do, is describe a huge project that Tom did. Books that do that are rarely much good for anything but the same project. What this book does do, is take the questions you might have about current topics relating to enterprise level applications, and work you through many iterations of the basic Oracle designs and tools you will need to be successful on any project, not just one he did. Finally, if you just type in the examples, it will be a great series of lessons, and well worth doing, but there is much more to learn, and most of it is free. Tom points out Oracle documentation that you should read, that you must read to be really good, and all of it is on the net. If you read Tom's books, you will be better than a lot of developers or DBAs, but reading at least part of what Tom has read to get where he is, is the only way to get the most out of his books and Oracle. This book is written in such detail that it has a lot for every skill level, it is not over your head, and certainly not beneath you. You can use this book to do better work, starting from any level. Tom Kyte has one of the best grasps of Oracle, and he is certainly the best instructor, teaching many of Oracle's best developers. This is a chance to the same kind of instruction, at a much lower cost.

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