Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers
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Oracle Database 11g: New Features is a comprehensive, example-laden review
of the most significant new features and improvements offered by the latest
release of Oracle Corporation’s flagship database product.
* Learn what’s new in Oracle that really counts.
* See actual examples and test run output.
* Make sound decisions on new feature adoption.
Sift the gold from the silt and discover which new features of the latest release
of Oracle’s flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years
of database administration experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim
are combined with sound, step-by-step testing and a heart-felt emphasis on what
matters in the real-world to help you get the most out of Oracle Database 11g.
What you’ll learn
* Which new features really can make your day-to-day work easier
* How to automate more of your DBA work than ever before
Who is this book for?
Oracle Database 11g: New Features is for developers, DBAs, project managers,
consultants, and other technically minded users of the Oracle database. The
book will be of use to any professional in the field who wants to quickly review
the new features offered by the Oracle Database 11g release.
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About the Authors
Sam R. Alapati is an experienced Oracle database administrator who holds
the Oracle OCP DBA and the Hewlett-Packard UNIX System Administrator certifications.
He currently manages Oracle databases at the Boy Scouts of America National
Headquarters in Los Colinas, Texas. Alapati has been dealing with databases
for a long time, including the Ingres RDBMS in the mid 1980s. He is also well
versed in the Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and IBM DB2 database management
systems.
Director of Database Technologies at Novara Solutions, Inc. Charles Kim
is the author of the 107+ page Maximum Availability Architecure case study at
Oracle's Website (http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/FNF_CaseStudy.ht
ml ), and is an Oracle Certified DBA, Redhat Certified Technician, and Microsoft
Certified Professional. He has over 16 years of IT experience and has worked
with Oracle since 1991. Charles is also a technical editor for Oracle Press.
Charles has presented advanced topics for IOUG and Oracle OpenWorld on such
topics as RAC/ASM and 7x24 High Availability Considerations using Oracle Advanced
Replication, Hot Standby and Quest Shareplex. Charles also runs the dbaexpert.com
website (http://www.dbaexpert.com) and provides technical solutions to Oracle
DBAs and developers.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 2 Average Customer Rating: Feb 27, 2008 Earl Shaffer - OracleMan Consulting from USA
Good book that summarizes 11g new features
I was looking for an overview of new features, from the point of view of someone who has used the DB release. I was not looking for syntax and all possible options for each new SQL command. I think the book satisfies that requirement.
The book has typos and another reviewer pointed out some errors. But anyone reading books published this close to the actual release of a new Oracle release knows that there will be minor problems with the book. Late into the release of 11gR1 other books will come out, maybe they will have fewer errors. But I wanted the info now. That is what I got in this book.
So I gave it 4 stars and I am happy I bought it.
Jan 10, 2008 LoveOracleBooks
It's ok, just ok.
This book is OK, but it contains a number of errors. Pages with obvious SQL example errors include 146, 165, and 166. There are quite a few others.
This book was also clearly written using the beta for 11g, and the authors missed several things that changed when production came out. For example the book says you can use hints to have your SQL use invisible indexes. You can not. I found out this was true in the 11g beta but not production.
Also the author says that you can set result_cache_mode to AUTO on page 176, but you can not. I suspect this was a beta left over too.
On page 162 the example of the use of lightweight jobs is incomplete as I had to go figure out how to create a program before I could create the lightweight job. This is not documented in the example thus you end up lost unless you know how to use the scheduler.
Another problem occurs on page 329. The author claims that a new feature (ignore constraint errors) is available and implies this feature is associated with external tables. This feature is, in fact, associated with expdp/impdp when Those utilities use external tables.
So, this book gets 3 stars... I struggled with 2 or 3, so I gave it 3.
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