Oracle Database Transactions and Locking Revealed Paperback – January 1, 2014

I recently came across the book called "Oracle Database Transactions and Locking Revealed" by Tom Kyte and Darl Kuhn. Usually, any new book by Tom Kyte is a big deal and acquires a huge following very quickly.In this case, that wasn't the case. I haven't seen posts on the oracle-l about it, none on the LinkedIn forums or Usenet. This book is relatively new, became available in November 2014, but it's enough time for the book to be widely commented or recommended. There are no reasons not to recommend the book. The book is very short, 150 pages, and is not one of those 700+ pages monsters that Oracle books of today frequently turn into. I would wholeheartedly recommend the book to developers, developing Oracle applications. It deals with critically important subjects like locking, transactions, undo and redo. The only thing missing from the book, which in my opinion should have been there, is flashback.However, the book is primarily dedicated to applications developers, not meant as an in-depth study for the aspiring DBA hopefuls. The main strength of the book lies precisely in its brevity and clarity. It covers the topics of critical importance for the application development. How many times did I hear the myth about the need to commit frequently? How many times did I see "WHEN OTHERS" exception handler in its most atrocious form ("WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL")? Tom and Darl did an excellent job explaining these things. They also provided tools to investigate redo and undo, all in 150 pages. Excellent job, must have for any application developer.

As always, another great boof by Thomas. Very deep and easy to understand. I recommend to all who want to know more on locks, latches, mutexes. It's recommended to developers but DBAs do profit a lot from reading it too. I've been a DBA for almost 30 years and worked with Oracle for about 20 since version 7.

In sights into Oracle transaction management. Very through. Required for DBAs and developers who want to design really good code for the Oracle database environment.

very well explained with examples

essential reading for oracle developers - lucid and clearly writtenTom Kytes evidence based approach make compelling reading.A shorter read than "expert oracle database architecture" which I also heartily recommend for DBA's