Amazon.com: Books: Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases: "Denizens of comp.databases.oracle.server have long known Mr. Lewis to be a knowledgeable and articulate writer about the workings of the Oracle RDBMS. I was delighted to hear that he was writing a book, and this one does not disappoint.
Lewis seems to know exactly when to give a broad overview of a subject, and when to zoom in on a telling detail. In contrast, many books about Oracle are either numbingly boring lists of minutiae, or frustratingly useless, detail-free summaries.
Lewis is such a good writer that one could, I imagine, pick up this book and read it front to back. I suspect most readers will do as I have -- find chapters that address some specific problem. This week I'm reading chapters 6 & 7 on indexing. It's certainly going to save my company thousands of dollars, and it looks like it's going to speed up the database a good bit, too. If I can make my boss and our users happy at the same time, I'd call that the best of all possible results, and 'Practical Oracle 8i' the best Oracle book I've read."
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
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