Oracle SAP Administration (O'Reilly Oracle)
Author: Donald K. Burleson
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ISBN: 156592696X
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (November, 1999)
Sales Rank: 98,280
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A really insightful SAP text
I have bought all of the SAP books, and this seems to be the only one that explains SAP in Plain English.I am an Oracle DBA, and this book was exactly what I needed. I do not want 500 pages of SAP internals, I just needed the basic concepts of SAP and how they apply to Oracle. This book was just right in that regard.
I also found the tuning scripts to be great, especially the row re-sequencing information.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great for the Oracle DBA
I found this book to be extremely helpful with my SAP/R3 and Oracle project. While the SAP material is light, this is outweighed by the valuable insights on using Oracle with SAP. The book does not appear to be intended as an SAP manual but has a focus for the Oracle DBA who must use SAP. The information was right on the mark and very useful. The scripts were wonderful. Overall, a great book and worth the money.
Rating: 4 out of 5
German COBOL demystified
SAP is a convoluted and not very intuitive system that has put many companies out of business. Based on some weird COBOL like German invention it attempts to be all things and in the long run is so structures that there is no flexibility or adaptability. It is constantly being re-designed and falling further into a black hole with each new version. A perfect example is following the logic or lack of when it comes to assigning serial numbers to a product. Serial numbers is a whole new concept for SAP.
If you are lucky and your company survived the implementation then the next step is trying to make sense of it. Now oracle on the other hand is just the opposite and relying on it may save your bacon. This book gives a great overview and when you get down to the nuts and bolts of the system this disjointed SAP statements will make sense. Forget about the massive manuals and hit the deck running with this book.
The only caveat is each version of SAP has a completely different screen look. Similar Products
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