Expert Oracle Database Architecture Paperback – January 1, 2014

I teach Oracle Database Certification courses at Austin Community College and I always tell my students that if they read Tom's book and do all the exercises until they understand the concepts they will often know far more about Oracle than the person that is interviewing them for a DBA position, especially if that interviewer learned Oracle in the Oracle 6 or 7 time frame and hasn't spent the time updating their knowledge about Oracle.Tom's book gives DBAs the ammunition to combat the "We don't need to know how the database works, our persistence layer does all that work for us." mindset that is so prevalent in the application development industry today.Expert Oracle Database Architecture should be required reading for any developer building applications on an Oracle Database. I can't count the number of times I've seen development teams rebuild functionality (poorly) that is included directly in the database. Or those same teams make design decisions without understanding the implications of those decisions because they've learned things like "Transactions are expensive resources that must be saved." or "We created an index and the database didn't use it, so indexes don't work."A team that builds applications against Oracle without understanding the concepts in this book is a team that will be wasting a ton of time fixing code that has been deployed which is the most expensive code in the word to fix! The least expensive code in the world to fix: Code that hasn't been written yet.

As always Tom rocks. A very comprehensive book and also in depth. I'v been around as DBA for 33 years and Oracle for 19 and Tom always surprises me. He's by far one of the best

Everything you need nothing you don't to understand the fundamental foundation of Oracle in a practical pragmatic and proven way.

Make no mistake, this is the best book on Oracle that exists! The author and book needs no introduction. My low rating is due to the fact that I already have the 1st edition of the book(for 10g), and this book appears to be mostly the same text with the scripts run under 12c environment.If you don't own this book already, get this today! This book has certainly made me a better developer/designer. You may also want to look at the 2nd edition which is about $20 cheaper.