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Title: Oracle Essentials: Oracle8 and Oracle8I by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern ISBN: 1-56592-708-7 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Good overview, "jumping off point"
Comment: This book has excellent "general concepts". As a DBA and consultant, something that separates you from everyone else is the ability to understand the 'what' and 'how' of Oracle. This book also has appendices that give you 6-7 books per chapter for the gritty details and the 'how-to'(ex: Oracle Parallel server, Oracle Application Server). I recommend this book to junior-midrange people and anyone going for a job interview!

Rating: 4
Summary: Informative, but biased
Comment: This book has some excellent sections, and was almost exactly what I needed. I came to Oracle via other RDBMSs (Sybase, PostgreSQL), so I cannot give a novice view, but the book does explain well how Oracle works. My big(!) complaint with the book is the gushing over the wonders of Oracle that are interjected throughout the book. For instance, page 65, has Oracle as the company that "pioneered client-server programming." After about 60 pages, I got to a point where I finally read the bios of the authors, and sure enough, a couple of Oracle employees. No wonder the sales pitch! So I *do* recommend this book, but you have to be prepared to grit your teeth on the occasions when the authors tell you that life itself wouldn't be worth living without the miracle of Oracle.

Rating: 2
Summary: Dissapointing
Comment: Read the oracle documentation you can find at technet.oracle.com. It is far better. Or pick up any book on oracle database administration or pl/sql. The material here is too elementary. Also, too much time is spent on obscure and rarely used topics at the expense of the 'meat' or oracle.