Ocp: Oracle8I Dba SQL and Pl/SQL Study Guide : Exam 1Z0-001

The DBA (database administrator) track is the most popular, with more than 8,000 DBAs being certified each year. Sybex's OCP DBA Study Guides provide complete coverage of exam objectives for the five exams in the DBA track: SQL and PL/SQL, Architecture & Administration, Backup & Recovery, Performance Tuning, and Network Administration. The books are fully up-to-date for Oracle8i and include all the new features of Sybex's best-selling Study Guides. The companion CDs contain exclusive self-testing software.

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Chip Dawns, OCP, has worked with Oracle databases since 1990. He is a consultant with D&D Technologies and often is a presenter at Oracle User Group conferences.

Bijou Thomas has more than six years of Oracle database management and application development experience. He has written articles for both Oracle Magazine and Oracle Internals.