An insider's in-depth guide to programming solutions for Oracle versions 7.3 through 8.1.7

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	• Expert One on One Oracle Thomas Kyte Peer Information Inc., 2001 - 1265 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

where is 10g?

[A review of the 2nd EDITION 2005.]
If you follow the database field, you will know of IBM having published a series of books explaining the details of DB2. These have been well received by DB2 users and are probably considered authoritative on it. Seems like Kyte is doing the same here, with regard to Oracle.

The book is offered with comprehensive, fine-grained explanations of much that Oracle's databases can do. The book is also structured to be more than a (heavy) reference tome. You should be able to teach yourself Oracle from scratch using it, and assuming only a prior knowledge of generic relational theory and SQL.

Regarding the book's size, Kyte points out that the official, full Oracle documentation spans some 10 000 to 20 000 pages.

In a nod towards a common situation, chapters are supplied for writing C or Java procedures. Databases have to interface with the real world and these languages are often used. Some of you will like Kyte's preference for writing Java code instead of C.

The only puzzle is that the book explains up to Oracle 8.1.7. Yet Oracle's top version is now 10g, which has been out for over a year.

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Exactly what it says it is

This hefty (1200 pages) work covers a wide variety of very advanced Oracle topics. Direct access through OCI, Java stored procedures, materialized views, object oriented extensions, performance tuning, bulk data import and more are presented at varying levels of detail. The subjects are always covered well with excellent use of expository text and graphics.

Of all of the advanced Oracle books I've read lately this one is the most accessible, as well as the most relevant to the applications that I have had in the past.

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Only covers thru version 8.1.7

I was not thorough enough in checking this book out before I ordered it (which is my fault). While Mr. Kyte offers some great ideas, it is very disappointing that this book which was published in 2005 covers only up to version 8.1.7. For this reason, I would not recommend purchasing it. There are other books available from other expert Oracle authors that are more current up to version 10g.

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It can't get better than this

We all know how good he is! In some areas, asktom.oracle.com is more useful than metalink itself .

This book is the best book available on Oracle. Though written for 8i, I think most of the content is version independent, and will hold good as long as Oracle is a RDBMS.

An insider's in-depth guide to programming solutions for Oracle versions 7.3 through 8.1.7

The signature edition of Thomas Kyte's Expert Oracle provides well over a thousand pages and comes from one of the leading professionals in the industry. Kyte develops Oracle database software and runs the 'Ask Tom' column in its magazine: his expertise lends to an insider's in-depth guide to programming solutions for Oracle versions 7.3 through 8.1.7. From fine-tuning tools and strategies to partitioning techniques, global indexes, C-based externals and more, Expert Oracle should be a mainstay on the shelves of any serious computer programmer.

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