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Title: Oracle8i for Dummies by Carol McCullough, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Ned Dana ISBN: 0-7645-0570-X Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (12 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent starting point
Comment: Oracle 8i for Dummies has two things going for it that other Oracle books don't. First, it sells for 1/2 the price of the others and second, it isn't 400+ pages thick. I was able to go through 8i, Enterprise Manager and WebDB within a day or two and get a good feel for the types of things that can be done. I haven't seen another book yet which would have helped me accomplish this.

I have to admit that those reviews complaining about lack of depth or completeness are somewhat valid. However, if you want this, go get one of the 400+ page monsters. If you want to get started fast, grab this book.

My strategy was to use this book as a starting point. I gained the experience to get around the most significant features with relative ease and I also learned which parts of Oracle 8i I really am interested in. I think that this book was perfect for this. Now I can get a more advanced book to cover the specific topics I need to dive into and expand my Oracle knowledge further.

Rating: 5
Summary: Good Overview
Comment: This text is a good high-level overview of Oracle.

Rating: 1
Summary: A festering boil of a book. Ugh!
Comment: I've read plenty of other Dummies books over the years, and it seems like the series has gotten worse as has attempted to tackle more specific, technical subjects. This is one example of how they've failed.

Better books in the series are typically clearly written, with specific examples and explanations. This one is all over the map. It's like listening to someone with attention-deficit disorder. "Here's this cool thing you can do, trust me, and here's how you do this *one* thing with it, but then, oh wait, there's this other thing, but wait, before i tell you about that, let me explain this other thing..." etc, etc, etc, ad naseum.

One of my biggest beefs with the book is that the author leads you through these step-by-step procedures, but there is never a clear explanation as to what exactly you're supposed to be doing. You just do it, and i guess you're supposed to figure out what it is by doing it. Wrong!

The experience of reading this book is similar to knowing how to sound out and read the words of a written foreign language, without the benefit of understanding what the words mean. As each chapter went by, i'd wonder what the hell it is i just read.

Look elsewhere for intro information. This is one will leave you dizzy.