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Title: Oracle8 for Dummies by Carol McCullough, Ned Dana ISBN: 0-7645-0239-5 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 16 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.14 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Start
Comment: I wanted to set the record straight on this book. It is intended for beginners. I have much MSSQL experience but had not used Oracle. It was daunting trying to get oracle started at first. Most books didn't answer or even address the obvious questions someone needs to ask to log on correctly and get around the tools. This book was perfect for that.

Those who write do not waste your money have missed the point of this book. I was fumbling around for a couple of days. Two days after getting this book and breezing through it, I had Oracle working, could create new tables, run queries and even had an idea how to schedule jobs. NOW I am ready to tackle JDBC and XML, the things I really wanted to get to.

The author does make some light-hearted comments. Some of it was for beginners with no SQL so I breezed through those sections. Even those sections however have points worth picking up. I think she had fun writing the book and it doesn't bother me to have some clear talk and some upbeat, even corny, comments. If you know Oracle, of-course, do not buy this book. If you have never used Oracle and want to start, this is a great first book on it, even for someone with extensive database experience. Read this, then go buy the tomes.

Rating: 3
Summary: Good for beginners
Comment: Oracle 8 for Dummies, covered the fundamentals very well. I feel it is a good place to start for novices, but not intermediate and advanced database administrators. Oh yeah, and what about platforms other than NT?

Rating: 3
Summary: Excellent for Beginners. Poor for Advanced Admin/Developers
Comment: The book is actually very good at the basics, and getting a user up and running very quickly with Oracle8. Note, however, the entire book applies to only Oracle8 running on NT4.0, and not any other platform.

The author could have aided the user further by going into more depth in many areas instead of making cute comments throughout the book. I read books for information, not to be entertained.

The CD was poor. It did not even load, and there is no way to contact the author, or a web-site to get bug fixes, or updates. The majority of the books example's rely on the CD and it sample database. And of all the people that buy and actually need this book (aka Dummies), the author needs to provide on-line help for them, or conduct better editing and quality testing before publishing this book.

In summary: if you are completely new to Oracle, but this book. If you have been using Oracle for more than two months, you are no longer a "Dummy", and you will only be satisfied with books of a higher caliber.