Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

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Authors: Sam R. Alapati, Charles Kim
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book

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Pages: 602
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ISBN: 1590599101
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
EAN: 9781590599105
ASIN: 1590599101

Publication Date: November 15, 2007
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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 for DBAs and Developers 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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3 out of 5 stars

Decent 11g New Features Book April 30, 2008
For the most part it was a decent book and gave me a great overview of the new features in Oracle 11g. However there are quite a few typos and a bit of inaccurate information (result_cache_mode = AUTO is not valid/supported).

I wouldn't say this is a bad book - it's a nice read and contains the majority of the information. I am impressed by it being one of the first 11g books out. The authors put in a lot of hard work and I congratulate them.

4 out of 5 stars

Very good book March 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'd recommend this book for a DBA who already has experience administering Oracle 9i and 10g, and want to maintain his/her knowledge up-to-date. It focus on the main new features of Oracle 11g, and it's certaily worth buying it!

5 out of 5 stars

The best 11g book on the market January 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is the most detailed 11g book on the market. It has a ton of material on the new Oracle database. Sam Alapati and Charles Kim deliver an excellent reference on 11g.

These 11g enhancements are covered in the book.

Installation, Upgrading, and Managing Change
Database Diagnostics and Failure Repair
Database Administration
Performance Tuning and Management
Database Security
Backup and Recovery
Data Pump
Oracle Streams
Storage Management (Direct NFS and ASM enhancements)
Data Guard
Application Development
Data Warehousing

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is serious about getting up to speed on Oracle 11g.

For LoveOracleBooks,

I see some of the errors you mention. You obviously went through the book. I tried the queries and they worked fine for me (after some minor editing). Any Oracle DBA should be able to figure it out. Still, the book was excellent for me. Sorry you are upset about a couple of typos (which isn't unusual with any technical book like this... especially with lots of examples). Still, I feel it's a really great book and the content within more than makes up for a couple of typos. There are literally tons of examples and the authors went out of their way to not just tell you how or why but to demonstrate how it's done. Many books don't go to such lengths. 99% of the examples work. The effort that clearly went into this books earns it 5 stars all the way.

3 out of 5 stars

very good book written in a hurry January 12, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

I selected this book because it's written by Alapati. I've read excellent books before by this author. Unluckily, this one is not among them.
I've finished reading the first three chapters and so far I found too many typing errors, errors in the code and unprecise statements. Obviously it was written in hurry.
All in all, this book does its purpose to me to learn Oracle 11g new features but I expected higher quality from Alapati and Apress.

3 out of 5 stars

It's ok. Problems with examples and incorrect information December 29, 2007
9 out of 13 found this review helpful

I was very excited to get this book. I like to stay current on Oracle database product changes. There is a great deal of information here (I have the other New Features book from Freeman but have not read it yet).

I have found a few problems with the text (I'm still reading it to be honest). First, several of the examples have errors in the code and generated errors when I tried to run them.

One such case is on page 146. A SQL query demonstrated there has some two obvious SQL errors. Clearly it was not tested, because it could not have run without an error (it bombed on me).

Another example is on page 166 where we find dbms_scheduelr instead of dbms_scheduler. A typo, yes, but one easily caught if the examples were tested.

Another example is on page 165 with a call to dbms_scheduler.set_attribute which has a typo. There are others, but you get the idea. It would also be nice if the code was available online somewhere.

The bottom line is that it seems that at least part of this code was not tested.

It also seems that the authors wrote part of this book on the 11g beta. I ran into one problem with the discussion on invisible indexes. The book indicates that you can use hints to force the use of an invisible index. When I tried this, it did not work (this drove me crazy as I was wondering what I was doing wrong!). After some research I found out that this was true in the beta but was not true in the final production cut of Oracle. Another example of what I think is a beta leftover has to do with SQL Query Result Caching. When I was trying this feature I found I could not set result_cache_mode to AUTO as documented in the book (page 176). When I looked in the Oracle documentation I found that AUTO was not a supported value.

Another problem I have is that examples are incomplete. For example, on page 162 there is a discussion on lightweight jobs. The examples are incomplete. I had to go figure out how to create a program (I had not used the scheduler before to be honest) before I could create the lightweight job. I spent about an hour fiddling with this, because another thing not pointed out by the author (or clearly in the documentation to be honest) are the restrictions on lightweight jobs. I know it's a new features book, and maybe I should know the scheduler, but I think at least the examples should be self-contained if possible.

Another twist appears on page 329. The author talks about a new feature that will eliminate failed loads on external tables. The only problem is that he does not give us any detail on how to actually use this new feature. Instead we get an example of how to create a table in Oracle 10g and he moves on to other features.

In the end, 3 stars seems about right to me. A lot of work went into this book, and I think I learned quite a bit about 11g, but I question now some of what I learned based on problems I've run into. I'll be reading the Freeman book mentioned by another review, shortly. It should provide a good contrast and check and balance.

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