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| Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals: v. 1 (Expert's Voice in Oracle) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jonathan Lewis
Publisher: APRESS
Category: Book
List Price: £33.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 16421
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 536
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1590596366
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
EAN: 9781590596364
ASIN: 1590596366
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
Fundaments for the Advanced May 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title of this book may lead some to believe this is a book for beginners. Think again! This is the most advanced and detailed Oracle book I have read. At points I thought that much of the material was unlikely to be of use in real life. However, within a couple of months of reading the book I was able to diagnose and resolve at least two problems that had completely stumped my predecessors. Diagnosing and resolving these problems required an understanding of material found exclusively in this book. As long as you are prepared to invest plenty of time in reading (and rereading) this book your understanding of this most important Oracle component will be transformed.
BEST EVER July 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is the best book ever, in my view, Tom's "Expert Oracle" has no comparsion to this one. If you want to be a serious Oracle developer or DBA, this book is definitely a MUST to read.
If you can't understand at the first time(as I did), read again!
deep and detailed, yet surprisingly easy to follow June 12, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Outstanding and excellent book - and I'm saying this after six months of reading and re-reading, and running and studying the provided scripts, and even performing my own investigations starting from the book's test cases.
It has been surprisingly easy to understand the material, even if I didn't know most of the things discussed. Reading has flown seamlessly, not exactly like reading a novel, but close enough for a technical book about the very complex CBO - and that was something I didn't expect at all, a very very nice surprise.
The most fundamental topics (the first ones are selectivity, cardinality, etc) being right at the beginning, I didn't need to read the whole book to start using the new knowledge effectively in practice, thus getting the "morale boost" that motivated me to read the next chapter, and then the next ... adding layer after layer of knowledge.
I also *loved* the high level of detail, which is absolutely necessary to understand the complex CBO, and the precise and succinct writing style as well, which makes for an easier and quicker learning. When speaking about mathematical subjects (since the CBO is just that of course - a mathematical model), it's mandatory to be precise and detailed: vague statements would only add confusion or, worstly, misunderstanding.
To recap - I've got home a vastly improved understanding of the CBO - and for a fraction of the effort I thought it would have taken.
Cost–Based Oracle Fundamentals – Jonathan Lewis December 14, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a DBA I was really looking forward to reading this book and I wasn't disappointed. It is perhaps, a little hard-going in places, but this is not at all surprising as the subject it covers is complex.
I thought the book was well structured and very well written. Each chapter contained lots of detailed information, plenty of interesting examples and a list of downloadable scripts to illustrate the text.
All in all, I thought this was an excellent book and a very useful and comprehensive reference. It comes highly recommended and definitely deserves a place on my Oracle bookshelf.
Cost–Based Oracle Fundamentals – Jonathan Lewis December 12, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a DBA I was really looking forward to reading this book and I wasn't disappointed. It is perhaps, a little hard-going in places, but this is not at all surprising as the subject it covers is complex.
I thought the book was well structured and very well written. Each chapter contained lots of detailed information, plenty of interesting examples and a list of downloadable scripts to illustrate the text.
All in all, I thought this was an excellent book and a very useful and comprehensive reference. It comes highly recommended and definitely deserves a place on my Oracle bookshelf.
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