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Describes everything DBAs need to know to install configure, tune, and troubleshoot Net8, Oracle's networking technology. It covers the Oracle Internet Directory (OID)

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This book fails at providing everything a DBA needs to know about OID. I am sorry to have to say that this is the first O'Reilly book which, after reading the appropriate chapters, leaves me almost as mystified as before reading it. No information is supplied for server-side installation and startup for OID, that I could find.

In chapter 6, p. 164 and following, it would be helpful if the figures appeared in the book in the same order they appear when running the Directory Manager. Transposing 6-7 and 6-6 would resolve a discontinuous flow which is currently the case.

Most troubling is that the book tells me to use a domain "orclContext" which doesn't appear in the SuperClass Selector window. Maybe that's a version problem.

The review option of "Wasn't for Me" isn't really appropriate. A more appropriate review option would be "Not up to O'Reilly Standards". Yes, there is much good information in various places in the book, but with the "Covers LDAP" banner on the cover, I expected a better treatment, and OID is why I bought the book.