OCP Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-050) (Osborne Oracle Press) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sam R. Alapati
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Pages: 523
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ISBN: 0071496823
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
EAN: 9780071496827
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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
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 Full of Errors July 24, 2008
Alex Green (Scotland)
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.
Too many unbelieveable mistakes - Call back this book! July 3, 2008
W. Ma
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!
 It's ok content wise, just lots of typos and obvious errors June 30, 2008
derBirus (Minnesota USA)
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...
Unfortunately, too many mistakes June 23, 2008
Valentyn Mitsek
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 ...
Oh dear... June 19, 2008
MC Bling
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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