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Title: Authors spend more time fawning over Oracle then teaching
Review: Very poorly organized, introduces complex topics before basics. Code examples almost always include the copyright notice presented when SQLPlus is activated which only serves to hide the actual example. Use of a different font for code examples would be a big help. Examples are disjointed, not consist with text, not done in a building block approach.They waste an entire chapter presenting the installation screens for different platforms without adding much of value beyond what the screen tells you anyway.Biggest problem with book is authors spend about 10% of their time praising Oracle for all the wonderful things they have done. This gets very tiresome and adds nothing to learning Oracle.As another reviewer indicated, it may be useful as a quick reference book, but falls short on being an introductory text.
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