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Author: Sam R. Alapati
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 523
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.2

ISBN: 0071496823
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
EAN: 9780071496827
ASIN: 0071496823

Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Product Description

A Fully Integrated Study System for OCP Exam 1Z0-050

Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11g New Features for Administrators exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test, and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get complete coverage of all OCP objectives for exam 1Z0-050, including:

Installation and upgrades
Partitioning and storage
Intelligent infrastructure
Diagnostics and fault management
Performance
Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback
Security
Oracle SQL Performance Analyzer
SQL plan management
Automatic SQL tuning

On the CD-ROM:

One full practice exam that simulates the actual OCP exam
Detailed answers and explanations
Score report performance assessment tool
Complete electronic book
Bonus exam available free with online registration

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars

Full of Errors July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The 'Acknowledgments' section starts thus: "I wish to acknowledge the excellent technical editing of the book by April Wells. Thanks to April's careful and expert technical vetting, I've been able to avoid errors and improve the quality of the presentation."

It's therefore hard to know who is most at fault for the appalling quality of this book. I wouldn't hire either of them for a job that required any attention to detail.

I started making a list of errors to see whether my initial impression was correct, and I am finding at least one per page on average. Here's a typical example: in a 3-page discussion of Automatic Memory Management starting on p328, there are (by my count) 63 mentions of memory-related parameters; of these, 9 are incorrectly named. And recognising the correct names of parameters is a common exam question!

There are also inconsistencies between different parts of the text, and in the self-test questions and answers, which means that you'll have to look up the correct information elsewhere.

Moreover, many of the explanations are extremely woolly and repetitive. For example: "The DBMS_ADDM package contains several 'directive' procedures to add specific directives to create directives of various kinds."

It's almost as though the publishers have used the first draft by mistake. No doubt the coverage of exam topics is comprehensive (I haven't checked against the syllabus), but the errors and the imprecise explanations make this a book to avoid if you want to pass the exam.

1 out of 5 stars

Too many unbelieveable mistakes - Call back this book! July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I cannot believe the author, as an experienced Oracle DBA, provided the following command (here only one bad example from huge other mistakes)to run a pl/sql function!

Chapter 4, page 233.
Using the EVOLVE_SQL_PLAN_BASELINE Function
SQL>exec dbms_spm.evolve_sql_plan_baseline(sql_handle=>'123456789999');

The Correct Command should be:
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
SET LONG 10000
DECLARE
report clob;
BEGIN
report := DBMS_SPM.EVOLVE_SQL_PLAN_BASELINE(
sql_handle => '123456789999');

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(report);
END;
/

The other simple misleading errors are the default value of the new parameters. When I read this book, I have to compare the related contents with Oracle manuals for 11g.

This book should be called back!

3 out of 5 stars

It's ok content wise, just lots of typos and obvious errors June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm about half way through the book and am amazed by all the typing mistakes in the book. Most are so obvious and some can cause some confusion to readers. Hopefully the publisher releases errata [...]. The actual content seems to be ok and has provided me enough information to research on my own. Hope there is a second edition and hopefully it's better...

2 out of 5 stars

Unfortunately, too many mistakes June 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Unfortunately, the book contains an incredible amount of errors - both typing and meaningful: different paragraphs conflict with each other, questions conflict with material in chapters, etc ...
Previous "exam cram" books contained many mistakes, but definitely not as much as this one ...

3 out of 5 stars

Oh dear... June 19, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

Undoubtedly this book will be the de facto resource for Oracle DBA's wishing to upgrade their certification (myself included).
As with other books like this you cannot go in to it cold and must practise what is covered.
Unfortunately there are several nasty errors to trip up the unwary.
If you test things out you will find them.
e.g. Chapter 3 page 6 - the code at the bottom of the page WILL NOT work!
you actually need to issue a SELECT ... FROM DUAL.

This kind of thing SHOULD NOT happen!

Hopefully the errors will be fixed in the 2nd edition of this book.

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