Sams Teach Yourself Oracle8i on Windows NT in 24 Hours

I am an experienced Windows NT system administrator but new to Oracle. I started my new responsibilites as an Oracle DBA on Windows NT and this book has helped me a lot in coming up to speed quickly. I even learnt a few things about Windows NT along the way.

I was initially reluctant to buy/read this book, because in the past I have been bitten by horrible SAMS 24 hour series books (like the one on Visual Basic by Greg Perry and Sanjaya Hettihewa). So I was sort of biased against this kind of books, considering them too basic for a senior IT professional. This book has been a pleasant surprise. It starts easy, but the thread of discussion soon switches and very advanced topics, such as Fail Safe and parallel server are exhaustively covered. The book is precise and accurate, and explores the NT specificity, teaching how to tune the operating system so that Oracle can run better. I have been an Oracle DBA in OpenVMS/Unix environments, and I could get up to speed to Oracle/NT relatively quickly, thanks to this book. We need lots of books like this one.

I have read this book and found every important points that I needed for upgrading to Oracle/NT. It's an excellent book . Highly recommended.

We have found this book to be very useful in our project, especially the tuning sections of the book. Our project involved migrating all our Oracle databases from UNIX to Windows NT and we were not really comfortable with all the issues. This book helped me and all the members of my team in understanding what we need to watch out for when working with Windows NT and how to efficiently use Oracle on Windows NT. It has been a lifesaver for our project. This book will always have a special place in our collection and we find ourselves referencing it daily.

This book helped me a lot in my attempt to move from Oracle on UNIX to Oracle on Windows NT. It contains everything I wanted to know about making the transition smooth. The Windows NT focus in this book is really good.