This book is awful!
I bought this book for a database administration class. I read the other reviews and did not want to believe them as I had no choice but to purchase this book for my class. Unfortunately, the other reviewers were extremely accurate. This book is poorly organized and the lab exercises do not correspond to the information that is presented in the chapters or even the book itself. You really need additional sources in order to complete the exercises. Also, all of the screen shots are from a previous version of Oracle Database 9i, NOT 10g. This is unacceptable!! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!
Instead, try the following books:
-Oracle Database 10g DBA Handbook, by Kevin Loney
-Oracle Database 10g, The Complete Reference, also by Kevin Loney
oracle 10g
This book is great if you are taken a college course or using it to study for the oracle admin test. It can become a little detailed in information, but for the most part, great study tool.
Required reading for a course
I only bought this item because it was the required text for a course I'm taking.
I dislike this entire series of Oracle 10g books. They are written in a scattered way that makes them relatively useless as a reference. If your not required to buy this book as part of a course, skip it.
Horrible, confusing, filled with typos and errors
This book has an entire class of students confused and lost. It does not explain things in a clear, concise manner. Instead, it goes around and around the point without ever saying what it means.
Trying to do the end of the chapter questions after reading the book and lecture still leaves students befuddled and lost.
If you want to be confused and enjoy reading a book filled with errors, read this. Otherwise DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!!!!!!!!
Horrible, horrible, horrible!
Horrible, horrible, horrible.......
This book deserves ZERO out of 5, but 1 is apparently the lowest I can rate it.
This is one of the worst textbooks I've ever read. I bought this book for an online class. It's like the chapter hands-on assignments were not written by the person writing the chapter. The assignments are not in-line with the chapter. You must go outside not only the chapter, but the book entirely to find the answers to the lab assignments. ...Gee, what's the point of buying the book if it doesn't contain the necessary building blocks to produce the answers, right?
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