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

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Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers is a comprehensive, example–laden review of the most significant new features and improvements offered by the latest release of Oracle Corporation’s flagship database product.

Learn what’s new in Oracle that really counts.

See actual examples and test run output.

Make sound decisions on new feature adoption.

Sift the gold from the silt and discover which new features of the latest release of Oracle’s flagship database product are really worth adopting. Years of database administration experience from authors Sam Alapati and Charles Kim are combined with sound, step–by–step testing and a heart–felt emphasis on what matters in the real–world to help you get the most out of Oracle Database 11g.

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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Product Details

Author:	Sam R. Alapati
Paperback:	602 pages
Publisher:	Apress
Publication Date:	November 15, 2007
ISBN:	1590599101
Package Length:	9.1 inches
Package Width:	7.0 inches
Package Height:	1.5 inches
Package Weight:	1.75 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 8 reviews

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Oracle Database 11g Review Sep 02, 2008
This is the first book I have read from Sam Alapati and Charles Kim. Coincidently or not, Sam is also the author of the "OCP Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-050)" book.
After completing this book I am very happy with what I have learned. The authors are very thorough in their coverage of the new features in 11g and do a good job of providing applicable real world examples.

Chapter 9 on ASM covered the new features well and Oracle has made some nice improvements. ASM is a growth area for Oracle and am looking forward to it becoming friendlier and easier to use. Moving files in and out of ASM has been made easier in Oracle 11g.

Chapter 11 on Application Development will be best utlized by developers or DBA's that are involved with development beyond the intermediate level. This chapter also introduces DBAs to APEX.

Chapter 12 is one of the most important chapters. This chapter focuses on Data Warehousing and includes the new partitioning features. The examples are easy to understand and are applicable to the real world. This chapter also does an excellent job on explaing Oracle's next generation LOBs called "Secure Files". This is a must read chapter.

If I could have added a chapter to this book it would be a chapter dedicated to RAC. Even though 11g does not bring too many new features to RAC it does have a few. For example the new features on parallel execution I do not think are mentioned. Their are also enhanced configuration assistants that can be better explained and can be found in a single place.

Overall this is an excellent book and for someone who is just starting to work with 11g this is the best place to start.

Decent 11g New Features Book Apr 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.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Very good book Mar 03, 2008
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!

3 of 4 found the following review helpful:

The best 11g book on the market Jan 22, 2008
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 of 5 found the following review helpful:

very good book written in a hurry Jan 12, 2008
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.