5 comments about Oracle DBA Exam Cram: Test 1 and Test 2: Exam: TEST 1 & TEST 2.

1. This book is completely out of date. It covers only Oracle7, with little to no applicability to the current market. Is this guy ever going to come out with an Oracle8 book?



2. This book is a very good exam cram. Usually Oracle books are very long and thick. I guess it's because they are written using cut and paste. But not this one. It's one of the shortest book (I mean number of pages) but it gives you all required infromation for these two exams. There are a few mistakes, but they are obvious and not confusing.

   I passed both exams with a good score. But you should remember, that these exams'll be retired in August, 2000. Probably, if you have strong Oracle 7 background it would be easier to you to get Oracle 7 certificate and then upgrade it to Oracle 8. I did it and it was very easy because there is another Coriolis book for the upgrade exam and it's also very nice.




3. I am an IT consultant and Oracle DBA with 8 years of experience in high-end technology, working for a large international bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I have decided to become Oracle certified because it would certainly give me more visibility in my work. Now, I am an Oracle8 OCP DBA with an average score of 97% in the five exams of the Oracle8 DBA track.

   I must admit it was very difficult at first to find out what the best way would be to prepare for the tests. It took me some time to understand that the exams are entirely based on the original Oracle course books and that the practice tests offered by Self Test Software are a superset of the real exams. Now I have a keen perception of what the whole process is all about. The real trick to get a 90+% score is to attend the Oracle classes and cram with the STS practice tests. However, this is a rather expensive way to study,......................

   When I fist set off my study, I bought Mr. Jason Couchman's Oracle8 DBA Certification Guide by Oracle Press. Bad choice... It was completely out of synch with the real exam contents and had a lot of typos and gross conceptual errors. I do feel sorry for those people who were caught unawares buying the big red book. I wonder how Oracle signed off on it.

   I also bought the 'Oracle 7 Exam Cram Tests 1 and 2' by Mr. Michael Ault and 'Oracle 7 Exam Cram Tests 3 and 4' by Mr. Ault Mrs. Anne Pascavage. They were both better than Mr. Couchman's, but a bit confusing, especially because they mixed two tests in each book. Besides, they did not cover Oracle8.

   As a last resort, I borrowed the original course materials from an acquaintance, with the exception of the Network Administration book. I read the reviews on Mrs. Pascavage's 'Oracle8: Network Administration', and decided to order it ......... I was surprised. This book is really great ! It was evident that the author was careful to study the original oracle course material and practice test, giving priceless tips and accurately separating the chapters according to those of the course books and the exams sections. Also, the questions in the book are very close to the real ones one would encounter. Congratulations, Mrs. Pascavage !




4. The only worthwhile part of the book, like all exam cram books, is the full exam at the end. There were several errors or vaguely worded questions that wouldn't make it past a beta exam. The chapters are pretty much photo copies of the oracle documentation with one main difference -- there are VERY FEW examples. Do not waste your money on this or any other exam cram books.



5. I bought mine from 'Surpluscomputerbooks'. This seller is very
   unscrupulous! I thought it was for Oracle8i, but it turned out to be for Oracle7 !!! Beware of what you buy into, someone might be dumping out of date material on you!

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1 comments about Computer Consulting on Your Home-Based PC (Entrepreneurial PC).

1. Holtz does a pretty good job with touching on all the areas of Computer Consulting from the home or as an independent. My only complaint is that the author does not spend enough time with things like: creating proposals (an example or two would have been nice), fee structures (how to set your fee competatively), overhead calculation (only touches on this). A good starting place, but more in-depth books are needed to make a successful go of it. Do not depend on just this book.

1 comments about Oracle8 Manual Del Administrador.

1. De lo mejorcito que he visto. Muy facil de leer y de seguir.

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4 comments about The Day the Phones Stopped Ringing.

1. This book is filled with true stories of the deadly and costly consequences of computer systems gone haywire. It is not technical and does not contain alot of techo-babble. Instead it deals with subjects such as surgical procedures gone wrong, airplane crashes, military mistakes, cases of mistaken identity and more...all caused by the misuse of computers or the misguded ideas of humans who use them. The author is a TV news reporter who presents this like an investigative reporter. However, he offers solutions and expert opinions on how to prevent each of these diasters from happening again. The question is: Is anybody listening ?



2. This book should be reprinted. With the upcoming Y2K bug as well as other incidents of software creating problems for people's lives, this book is necessary reading. It contains actual real life information about the extent of the problem and how a society that relies on computers as much as ours does is vunerable.



3. I wrote this for the other entry at Amazon.com with the same title, same author, different subtitle. This book should be reprinted. With the upcoming Y2K bug as well as other incidents of software creating problems for people's lives, this book is necessary reading. It contains actual real life information about the extent of the problem and how a society that relies on computers as much as ours does is vunerable.



4. I like reading real-life experiences used to illustrate a technical point rather than a dry dissertation. Like 1 of the other reviewers - I feel that this title should be reprinted but it should be updated and revised in light of changes in the software/hardware/systems world since the time it was published. AND it needs to have both an index and pointers to sources (i.e. footnotes, bibliography, etc.) The lack of the latter 2 items diminished the usefulness of the book for me as I could not follow up/get more in-depth information and I could not easily find a particular fact or passage I wanted to find in the book.

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1 comments about Database Performance Tuning and Optimization: Using Oracle.

1. I didn't really order this book expecting a practitioner's guide to Oracle. It's written by a respected and widely published academician and I was looking forward to a melding of theory and practise. All I found was a book full of filler (lots of queries and printouts when summaries would have done) that is way out of date. For a performance book published in 2003 to not even mention Statspack (while devoting a chapter to bstat/estat) tells me that the author stopped working on Oracle at 8.0 and has not caught up. I have to admit that I cannot write a thorough, page by page review of this book because it is packed up for return to Amazon (a first for me). But to give you a couple of examples of the shallow treatment of the subject in this book: the index does not list the term histogram (poor editing) and the section devoted to it does not even mention that there are problems getting the optimizer to make full use of histograms when bind variables are used (though researchers have shown that histograms are not fully ignored when using binds as has been published many times). The section on partitioning doesn't go into the advantages and drawbacks of global vs. local indexes on partitions and doesn't in fact go into any substantive treatment of partitioning options at all. This book is over-priced and under-powered. I gave it two stars instead of one simply because someone who is a student trying to transition from pure theory into practise may find the reasurring presences of familiar terminology and formatting helpful. There is some material on the mathematical foundation of the relational model that could also be helpful to the student and practitioner in the field. But if you are looking for real performance books you would be far better off looking at those from authors of the Oak Table (search for Oak Table on Google to find this), such as Tom Kyte and Jonathan Lewis.

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