In its favor it states many times that it is not intended so, but if you need to learn more about optimizing your entire database environment or require information about distributed transactions, lock contention, or rollback segments, you're out of luck here. I would be the first to admit that few developers ever need to delve into this dark and foreboding area of Oracle, but lacking this material makes it difficult for me to agree that it is indeed a complete reference to Oracle8. Overall, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better reference for Oracle and its implementation of SQL than this book. For questions or comments about a review, please contact the person listed at the top of the review. Ed's Internet Book Review is copyright 1995-2001, Dr. Edwin V. Bell, II, all rights reserved.
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