Foreword

Learn from the Experts and Be Humble

Why are DBAs so humble? The answer is that being a DBA is a humbling experience even for the most intelligent perfectionists in the crowd. There are several hundred books on Oracle, but there are few that are written for the beginner. Dan has given the beginner to intermediate Developer or DBA a priceless reference of examples in this new effort.

I remember being the beginner DBA back in 1987. Brad Brown and Joe Trezzo used to play a joke on me back in 1987; they would type the ior i (which was the command to wipe out the entire database) on my computer when I was at lunch. The next statement was “Are ...

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