Those guys who panned this book don't get it -- This is a BEGINNER's book. They seem to be looking for advanced material, and this is certainly not the right book for that.But as I'm a rank Oracle beginner, this book helped ME get going FAST. Everything I needed to Install 8.1.5 out of the box on my NT server, and configure the Starter Database so I could begin writing SQL, was here.For my dollar, this book (and Oracle 8i for Windows NT Starter Kit, by Bobrowski) is everything "Oracle 8i for Dummies" should be but isn't.