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Title: very average
Review: this book is very average. i think that people are looking at their passing scores on the b&R test and just assuming the book helped them a great deal. truth is, the test isn't that hard if you study the general material. and sure, the book presents the general material... but it does so in a scatterbrained and unorganized fashion. the explanations of utilities such as rman and theories of restore/recovery are presented in a very ambiguous manner. (if you don't use rman, you'll have a test time grasping it's used based on the chapters in this book) plus, there's a lot of extra stuff that you don't need to know. sure, it's nice to know everything - but this book is for test preparation, right? the book is ok... maybe worth 3 stars. (and yes, i passed with a good score and i used the book) however, i'm giving it 2 based on the facts that it's ranked too high already, and it's pretty disappointing for a book that should be an easy write for a qualified DBA.
