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title: "Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table (Oaktable Press)"
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# Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table (Oaktable Press)

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- **What is this?** Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table (Oaktable Press) by apress
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## Customer Reviews

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    I want more books like this one!
  

*by A***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2005*

I really don't know where I should begin writing this review to give the book a proper credit that it deserves. Hmm...FUN - I think that this word best describes this collection of essays (eleven prominent authors instead of more usual one or two, certainly helped a lot).Can't remember when was the last time that I read technical book that kept me reading and reading, and reading - simply because all essays were *fun* to read. To be clear, yes I'm an Oracle geek, but I don't think you have to be an expert to understand 'the point' in the majority of the book, on contrary, if you're by any chance an Oracle newbie you have an opportunity to learn from the true experts (from their work done on  the "projects from hell") and pick up some good habits and techniques to start your Oracle career (this book is not really about internals as much as it's about proper design and importance of understanding technology before using it - and using it to the full extent - you'll probably never again write DB agnostic applications, if this was your sin in the past :-).So, being an expert or not, I'm sure you'll get the true 'message' from this book that will stick with you for the rest of your life (of course experts will enjoy reading it slightly more, they'll finally learn, what AFIEDT.BUF is really all about ;-).Finally, thank you guys for writing this book, and Mr. Mogens Noorgard (you lucky *****), thank you for "networking" Oak Table members together.Thank you for reading this review.

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    Secrets about Oracle REVEALED; or "Failure is a Repeatable Process"!
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2010*

This book delivers the fun "back stories" on both Oracle databases in particular, and database-oriented application development in general.  For example: why did Oracle personnel -- in sheer desperation -- start instrumenting the DBMS? Because they couldn't figure out what their highly-complex software was doing either!  Now it's public knowledge how to track every step of Oracle execution.Why do projects fail despite Oracle being highly-scalable? Because people *assume* they know what the Oracle DBMS will do, so they never test for scalability before throwing the project into production!  Tale after tale prove you can't optimize what you never tested: only ignorance and hubris are infinitely scalable!

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    Excellent and fascinating read for aspiring Oracle gurus
  

*by B***I on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2005*

As an Oracle and SQL Server DBA for the last seven years I found this book an excellent and very refreshing change from technical manuals and books on Oracle database design and administration. The first few chapters are priceless from Oracle history to the useful read on Oracle tuning using Wait events. I really enjoyed learning how the product evolved from inception to the new version of 10g. All in all money well spent and nice to know that even such gurus as the Oak Table guys are human and have shared tough DBA experiences. Someday I want to meet and work with these guys!

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