[INFO][BOOK] Expert one on one 出版了中文译本

olive

所以无关话题我已不再理睬。
我现在有点后悔昨天复印的时候没有把扫描的文件同时保存下来。
不过大家有需要的话我一定帮忙的。大不了给大家提供手抄本...

biny

最初由 olive 发布
[B]所以无关话题我已不再理睬。
我现在有点后悔昨天复印的时候没有把扫描的文件同时保存下来。
不过大家有需要的话我一定帮忙的。大不了给大家提供手抄本... [/B]

热烈鼓掌，坛子里需要这样的好同志呀。 ：）

Seaman

本人也买了中文译本，书太厚了，阅读起来不大方便，出版商应该把它分成两本来出版才对。
另外，翻译得确实不够专业，这是初步印象。还有，读英文原版第一章时能够感到tom的那股‘深恶痛绝’，读译本就完全感觉不到了。嘻嘻好像跑题了，等看完在说了...

alpha

WDVL interviews Tom Kyte, author of Expert One-on-One: Oracle

October 23, 2001

1. What were the major issues that you tried to highlight in the book?

The major issue I was trying to get across was a simple one, one that we put right on the back of the book "You can treat Oracle as a block box and just stick data into it or you can understand how it works and exploit it as a powerful computing environment". My goal was to help people understand how it works and then exploit it as a powerful computing environment. To this end I opened the book with a chapter chock full of anecdotal stories the describe how lack of understanding of how the database functions will ultimately lead to disaster as you try to grow and scale your system up. Once I get the point across as to the importance of understanding the database, I spend the rest of the book explaining it. The first few chapters cover the architecture and implementation of various database features such as locking, concurrency control, transactions, redo, rollback, they myriad of table implementations provide and likewise for indexes. Just understanding this material would satisfy my goal of "understanding" the database. If you master all of those topics -- you by definition have a great understanding of Oracle and how it works.

The rest of the book is about exploiting Oracle -- I cover some of the tools such as import/export, sqlldr, tkprof, and statspack. Then there are 13 more chapters that go into detail on specific Oracle features that I feel you should know about. Topics such as Java Stored Procedures, Fine Grained Access Control, Analytic Function and Materialized views are covered in a similar manner. I started with "What is this feature all about" followed by "Why you want to use this feature" and "How to use this feature". When applicable -- there would be a section on errors you might encounter with a particular feature and how to overcome or avoid them.

The last section of the book is some 200 pages on how to use many of the supplied packages Oracle provides (and no one seems to use). This really fits into the exploiting theme -- anytime you don't have to write the code that's a good thing. There are many packages that virtually every application should use; yet most do not. After reading this section -- hopefully that won't be the case anymore.

2. How did you find the writing experience?

This was my first book. I wasn't really sure what to expect. In the beginning it went a little slowly (all the time in the world or so it seemed). In the end it was light speed.

We started with an outline for an 800-page book but as we now know -- it is over 1,200 pages! That was due in part to an overhaul of the outline midway through the book. Until I actually started writing, it was hard to see how everything was going to fall into place. I found the original outline was missing some key components -- things necessary to get the point across. The book at that point would have been about "exploiting Oracle" -- but not so much understanding it. As we felt that was a key component of the book, we adjusted the outline to accommodate that. The result was a much better overall book. It did tend to slow us down a bit however.

Near the end, juggling the book, my regular job, answering questions on asktom.oracle.com and having a family life was a bit tough -- there were quite a few later then normal nights, especially during the rewrites. The rewrites as well were fairly trying. With all of the effort I had put into the book -- the detailed comments the reviewers had were sometimes disheartening (I had literally some of the best people related to Oracle reviewing this book -- people revered in the field, they were almost always correct in their comments). As time went on however, you stop taking it personally and understand that they are trying to help you make the best book -- not just nit-picking your material. I incorporated a large percentage of their comments (and this made the book even bigger -- I don't think any chapter "shrunk" during the rewrite but many grew in size).

All in all, I'm glad I did it -- I'll have a much better idea of what to expect if there is a next time. It was a rewarding experience in total.


3. What do you consider to be the major developments in Oracle at the moment?

That's easy -- two words: 9i and 9iAS. Oracle9i, the latest release of Oracle, was released at about the same time as this book I've been giving a class to Oracle Sales Consultants describing many of the new features -- it takes 8 hours and even then only if I talk really fast. There is a lot of new stuff in there. 9i focuses on a couple of major areas such as:


manageability
availability
reliability
security
XML

9iAS on the other hand, is our Application server. The key component of 9iAS is a fully J2EE compliant environment for developers to use to build their applications with. In addition to supporting the functionality of the existing OAS (Oracle Application Server) product, 9iAS is a total rework incorporating this new J2EE engine.

alpha

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/Oracle/OneonOne/index.html

Hope you guys like it

alpha

好象内容很少

moenxu

最初由 alpha 发布
[B]http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/Oracle/OneonOne/index.html

Hope you guys like it [/B]

没错是的。

alpha

但那个明显没有1000页呀。呵呵

tiantianoracle

上面只是此书的第一章。。。。。

moenxu

最初由 tiantianoracle 发布
[B]上面只是此书的第一章。。。。。 [/B]

一般出版公司提供第一章是为了大家可以先看一下的。就像在百货公司里面买衣服的时候试穿一样的。他们是不会给你所以的电子版本的。否则，他们如何赚钱。