4 comments about Oracle and Unix Performance Tuning.

1. After hearing the author speak at Oracle Open World in 1997, I bought his book. There are alot of details covered in his book that the oracle documentation specific to the Unix platform doesn't address. The book assumes a working knowlege of both Oracle and Unix. I would recommend it for System Administators who support systems that run Oracle and DBA's who need more performance tips for their platform.



2. Excellent for those well versed in Unix. The index could have been better though. Definitely for those with some prior experience as Unix admin and DBA.



3. This is a good book for UNIX system administrators who support Oracle systems. However, unless you are an Oracle DBA who is really interested in UNIX internals, this book is not for you.



4. If you are a DBA this book belongs on your shelf. It is packed with platform specific information as well as sage advice from a seasoned veteran of performance tuning.

No comments about Using Oracle.

3 comments about Oracle8 Database Administration on Windows Nt.

1. This book gives you a good explanation of how Oracle is implemented on Windows NT. It does a good job covering installation, backup and recovery, and basic tuning. However, I purchased this book specifically for more information on Job Scheduling through Oracle Enterprise Manager. This topic is not covered in this book.



2. I guess the author is a populor teacher in his class. This book has covered most of the requireed knowledge for an Oracle DBA. It contains many figures which will save readers a lot of time in understanding and exercising. The text is simple but to the point. The attached CDROM is not of much interest to me.



3. I found this book too lightweight on conveying real hands-on skills for using Oracle 8 for Windows NT. The focus seems more on a combination of theory and hands-on, achieving neither. Since I am using the OEM for most DB admin the combination of command line and GUI contributed to the confusion.

2 comments about Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age.

1. The Dream Machine provides a plethora of information to the reader. It gives specific detials of the evolution of the computer. Including: many people, companies (IBM, Remington Rand), the languages of programming, the personal computer and more...



2. This is the book that that spawned the PBS series "The Machine that Changed the World" airing in America around 1992. It was a five part series that closely matched this book, on which it was based. With this book you will gain an appreciation for the history of the modern computer and get an excellent historical perspective. The 5 part TV series with episodes taken from chapters of this book were titled:
   
   1) Great Brains
   2) Inventing the Future
   3) The Paperback Computer
   3) The Thinking Machine
   4) The World At Your Fingertips
   
   The book was written before the the invention of the internet and the world wide web, but you can see it coming. Industry giants such as the Alan Kay, Doug Lenat, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Alan Touring, Robert Noyce, Charles Babbage, George Boole, Jon Von Neumann and many others are all mentioned and their contributions are put into a modern (for the day) perspective.
   
   I would recommend this book to any student of computer science or computers as a hobby. Though the book is well over 15 years old, it has a timeless quality that takes you back to the beginning of the computer age and leads you gently into the modern era.

1 comments about The Computer Revolution: An Economic Perspective.

1. This report represents a classic example of limited inquiry in academic pursuits by relentlessly ignoring category error (insufficient definitions) as challenged since the early '90s by Mandel (Businessweek 5/18/94) and others (Edupage 2/21/95). It is now finally contradicted by the NAICS data (USA Today 3/20/99).

No comments about Deconstructing the Computer: Report of a Symposium.

5 comments about Oracle8i SQLJ Programming.

1. This is an excellent book about SQLJ programming. I've reccomended it to several of my friends. The code works fine in Dr. Solomon's portion of the book. Perhaps I have a later edition.



2. This book provides a good introduction to SQLJ programming in Oracle. If you are trying to leverage Oracle's built-in Java support, I highly recomment reading this book. The sections are focused and concise and you can easily use this book as a reference guide as well. This book is the best reference I have found to-date on SQLJ programming.



3. I found this book delightful reading. The clear exposition, program examples with detailed explanations, clear definitions, and well stated principals makes this a must have book for those wishing to use Java with Oracle8i. The detailed style is reminiscent of the well-known text books by authors Harvey and Paul Deitel.

   This book is suitable for both database application programmers and undergraduate students. My undergraduate students, who have had a strong course in Java, would love this text. I am using it as a supplement in this fall's Database Systems course.

   Java has really come into its own and Oracle8i strongly supports it. The Oracle8i database server supports both PL/SQL and Java. Oracle's Jserver, which includes a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The authors provide a clear overview of how Java and now SQLJ fit into the database world.

   This book presents very clear explanations for people new to database programming. They discuss JDBC and SQLJ and compare the approaches for accessing a relational database server. The authors give a detailed explanation of how a SQLJ program gets translated into Java source code. Nothing is skipped in explaining what the SQLJ translator does. For example, there is a fine discussion of the SQLJ iterator (which is essentially a Java class; the SQLJ translator actually replaces the SQLJ iterator declaration with a Java declaration for a class.) There is a detailed explanation about how the Java class contains a next() method and has accessor methods for columns in a particular table. The discussion of SQLJ stored programs is clear. Pros and cons of loading/compiling on the client versus the server side are given. There are fine examples of both ways of doing things. They give a very good explanation of how a SQLJ program connects to a database using an instance of a connection class, which is really a Java class that is defined in a SQLJ connection context. In conclusion, this is a very refreshing book that gives theory and detailed programs with great explanations. Java is an exciting language and SQLJ makes database work very interesting. These authors are doing a super job in promoting this new and relatively easy way of developing for Oracle databases. I have not found any other book to come close to what they have done for the database community.




4. There are two major problems with this book:
   1. The sample programs do not compile, let alone work.
   2. The book is badly organized, with poor explanations of SQLJ.
   

   Save your money, this book is garbage.
   You have been warned.
   




5. If you are serious about learning SQLJ, I strongly recommend that you get this book. Both a tutorial and a reference manual, this book takes the guts of SQLJ and spelled it out in layman terms. Full of well-designed and well explained code based on real-world applications, this book is a MUST for any Java developer.

No comments about Oracle8i Windows NT Edicion De Aprendizaje.

5 comments about Oracle Real Application Clusters.

1. The first book that explains the why, when and how part of RAC.

   I have understood and enjoyed every piece of this book, great reading, great coverage and very well explained content. The author has explained with great amount of detail, covering internals of RAC architecture.

   All chapters from basic Oracle fundamentals to performance tuning and high availability features are explained in a clear manner

   Excellent buy. I will recommend this to anyone currently working or planning to use RAC.




2. I did not find the clusters information to be as deep as the Madhu Tumma book by far.
   
   I liked the Tumma book far better in my opinion.



3. This book is really not special. Why the author still try to cover so many topics that are not really related to RAC? I'm thinking that oracle documentation is better to read, beside it's free.
   If you have already familiar with oracle architecture, and have some exposure to RAC env, you will feel dissatisfied buying this book.



4. This book has 780 pages and content that could fit into about 250. Much time and energy is spent on subject matter which anyone who intends to mess with Real Application Clusters should already be familiar with, such as 'What is parallel processing, 'backup and recovery' and 'Using OEM'. Read the manuals instead.



5. The only thing good about this book is probably the marketing. Only about 100 (out of almost 800) pages should be there in such a book. The rest is all fluff and wastes time on basic things like "parallel processing", OEM. Too much time is spent on basic things and the real important things are either skipped over or explained using poor examples. Enough discussion of performance, recover techniques, cluster internals etc is NOT done.

No comments about IFRS (IAS) - Praktische Umsetzung mit der Oracle E-Business-Suite.