Ensor, James

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Excellent and fascinating read for aspiring Oracle gurus
I want more books like this one!
A Painful, Funny Journey
This should be on the Generic Documentation CD
A niche book for Oracle internals experts

Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table
Dave Ensor , Tim Gorman , Kyle Hailey , Anjo Kolk , Jonathan Lewis , Connor McDonald , Cary Millsap , James Morle , Mogens Nørgaard , and David Ruthven
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Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals
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ASIN: 1590593871

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Oracle is the enterprise database of choice for the majority of businesses (holding 42% of the Unix/Linux and Windows market in 2002). The intent of this book is to present a "big picture" of Oracle and Oracle development, covering:

• How Oracle (and Oracle development), has evolved over the years (from being used to achieve local tactical objectives to a corporate resource used for mission-critical strategic applications)

• Landmark projects with which the authors have been involved and lessons learned

• Key techniques and processes that emerged along the way, in response to the challenges thrown up by various projects, and their relevance today.

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This is the most unique book in the Oracle market you will find!

Apress has gathered 12 of the most talented and famous Oracle experts in the world to bring you Oracle Insights, Tales of the Oak Table. Eleven of the talented 12-author team are members of the prestigious Oak Table society and, each author has contributed by writing a single chapter. With a combined 90 years of Oracle experience, this impressive team has worked on some of the very largest and most complex (and in some cases, most infamous) Oracle projects in the world. Oracle Insights, Tales of the Oak Table is the collected experiences of the Oak Table team, placed against the backdrop of Oracle's evolution, and highlights some of the groundbreaking software and techniques that the authors invented in response to the challenges facing them, and how these techniques are relevant today.

Each chapter of Oracle Insights, Tales of the Oak Table, is based on the author's real life experiences working with Oracle on various significant projects. The chapters are written in an anecdotal, humorous manner, with the underlying intent to teach readers the general lessons learned from these projects and, more specifically, the techniques that emerged or evolved as a result of these projects.

As described in Oracle Insights, Tales of the Oak Table, some of the authors will have crossed paths during certain projects described in the book. The book will provide a foldout color map, which attempts to show the time, and project where the authors met which, helps the readers to understand the incredible relationship, both professional and personal, that the Oak Table experts have.

Some of the hilights from this highly anticipated title include:

Encapsulates the knowledge and experience of some of the foremost experts in Oracle development, the vast majority of whom are also established and successful authors

Covers landmark software and techniques (invented by the authors) that have changed the face of Oracle development

A broad ranging, anecdotal and humorous title that will appeal to anyone (developers, DBAs, manager, architects etc) involved with and Oracle-based project.

Simplified code snippets, the book provides real solutions that people can then build upon themselves

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Excellent and fascinating read for aspiring Oracle gurus.......2005-07-18

As an Oracle and SQL Server DBA for the last seven years I found this book an excellent and very refreshing change from technical manuals and books on Oracle database design and administration. The first few chapters are priceless from Oracle history to the useful read on Oracle tuning using Wait events. I really enjoyed learning how the product evolved from inception to the new version of 10g. All in all money well spent and nice to know that even such gurus as the Oak Table guys are human and have shared tough DBA experiences. Someday I want to meet and work with these guys!

I want more books like this one!.......2005-05-02

I really don't know where I should begin writing this review to give the book a proper credit that it deserves. Hmm...FUN - I think that this word best describes this collection of essays (eleven prominent authors instead of more usual one or two, certainly helped a lot).
Can't remember when was the last time that I read technical book that kept me reading and reading, and reading - simply because all essays were *fun* to read. To be clear, yes I'm an Oracle geek, but I don't think you have to be an expert to understand 'the point' in the majority of the book, on contrary, if you're by any chance an Oracle newbie you have an opportunity to learn from the true experts (from their work done on the "projects from hell") and pick up some good habits and techniques to start your Oracle career (this book is not really about internals as much as it's about proper design and importance of understanding technology before using it - and using it to the full extent - you'll probably never again write DB agnostic applications, if this was your sin in the past :-).
So, being an expert or not, I'm sure you'll get the true 'message' from this book that will stick with you for the rest of your life (of course experts will enjoy reading it slightly more, they'll finally learn, what AFIEDT.BUF is really all about ;-).
Finally, thank you guys for writing this book, and Mr. Mogens Noorgard (you lucky *****), thank you for "networking" Oak Table members together.
Thank you for reading this review.

A Painful, Funny Journey.......2005-04-08

I have 14 years of Oracle Experience with some of the busiest and largest transaction systems in the world. This book really hit home for me and brought back a lot of memories of painful times as well as gave me new insights. I have re-read this book twice since getting it amonth ago. It is that good.

The Tales of the Oaktable is a skeptic's work of technological history that is funny and hard to put down, but which also provides experienced database professionals roadmaps to solve their pressing problems ( or even see that they have a problem.)

The authors take an empirical, rational approach to diagnosing and discovering the most serious problems while providing amusing revelations about the people and organizations they have worked with. Along the way they lift Oracle's skirts and take us out back to show us the dirty laundry and other junk in Oracle's back yard. They provide methods to diagnose and reapir problems in oracle performance as well as enumerate the known pitfalls in project management and database design. Seasoned IT types will groan and laugh during these chapters.

They also look at larger architectural, economic, psychological, and philosophical issues which have a direct impact on databases and large information systems. Norgaard's history of computing is quite depressing. And I agree that many of the "new" blood wants to focus on .NET and J2EE - when the real heart and soul is still the data.

Oracle Insights DOES require both deep thought and deep, hard-won knowledge of Oracle in order to fully enjoy it. So, if at first you don't like it, then you don't know what you don't know.

This should be on the Generic Documentation CD.......2005-03-29

Declaration of Interest: I was lucky to have worked alongside one of the authors. So that's why I bought it.

Glad I did. Read it on the beach over Easter weekend. Dipped in and out. Learned and laughed. Certain to re-read some chapters, and to refer back to it. The very different styles of the contributors make it all the more readable - you just don't know whats coming next.

Its worth the price for pretty much any 3 of the 11 chapters, even if you chose them at random. And you can hit your SAN manager over the head with it, he probably won't feel a thing anyway.

Thank you OakTable.

But its not in your shopping cart yet is it, because I've marked it down a star. Look, there are some minor bugbears. Don't be put off, just setting expectations:

1) There's some heavy name-dropping, perhaps in keeping with the project. Perhaps I'm jealous my brain isn't the size of a planet; these chaps' are.

2) You can see from (1)that HHTTG was funny once, about 20 years ago. My dad has been citing it as the answer to everything ever since; its worn a bit thin. I'm sure he would love this book for exactly that reason.

3) I'm the sure the sequel will be even better.

You can put me down for 2 copies of "Seeing Double: Tales from Under the Oak Table" while I'm here.

A niche book for Oracle internals experts.......2004-11-07

This book is intended for Oracle internals experts who want a deep, deep drill down into the guts of Oracle to look for optimizations. It's well written and very in-depth, but you should have a look at the table of contents to make sure that you can get anything out of this book before you buy it. If you aren't the target audience then you are likely to get little or nothing out of it.

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James Ensor
Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg , Rudolf Schmitz , Xavier Tricot , and James Ensor
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Release Date: 2006-03-01

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Few artists of the late nineteenth century produced an oeuvre more bizarre, ironic, profound and rich in interpretive possibilities than the Belgian painter James Ensor. Ensor lived from 1860 until 1949, and has enjoyed newfound fame since 1994 as the subject of the They Might Be Giants song "Meet James Ensor." His unusual work challenged standards of taste and technique by mingling the influence of his Belgian forbears, Bosch and Breugel, with a bright, loosely brushed impressionist style. Ensor offered unmistakable symbols of the absurdity of existence--particularly in portraying the tourists who flooded his native Ostend on their vacations, whom he caricatured mercilessly as clowns and skeletons, or concealed behind brightly colored carnival masks. His painting influenced both German Expressionists and French Surrealists. When seen in the light of new trends towards the grotesque and comic in contemporary painting, his work obtains new currency. James Ensor includes some eighty masterpieces on canvas and sixty works on paper from international museums and private collections, with key pieces from each of his creative periods. Particular attention is paid to his late work, long neglected by scholarship, in order to prepare the ground for a re-evaluation.

James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (Getty Museum Studies on Art)

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James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (Getty Museum Studies on Art)
Patricia G. Berman
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The brash young artist James Ensor painted Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 during a period of extraordinary artistic and political fomentation in his native Belgium. It is one of the most dazzling, innovative, and perplexing paintings created in Europe in the late nineteenth century, rivaling any work of its period in audacity and ambition. Huge in scale, complex in design and execution, and brimming with social commentary, the startling canvas presents a scene filled with clowns, masked figures, and--barely visible amid the swirling crowds--the tiny figure of Christ on a donkey entering the city of Brussels. This insightful volume examines the painting in light of Belgium's rich artistic, social, political, and theological debates in the late nineteenth century, and in the context of James Ensor's exceptional career, in order to decipher some of the painting's messages and meanings.

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James Ensor: Catalogue Raisonne: Prints
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Early in his career, Belgian painter James Ensor (1860-1949) broke away from Impressionism, rejecting its prettiness in favor of an original, highly dramatic style. Incorporating elements of satire, caricature, masquerade, and the grotesque, Ensor was a sharp observer of his social and political milieu and a skilled controversialist. Bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and not easily fitting into one particular movement or group, his drawings are increasingly valued for their innovative subjects and techniques, as well as the strong social criticism at their heart.

This volume, published to accompany the first major New York exhibition of Ensor's drawings, includes more than one hundred plates, most of them in color. Essays by Susan M. Canning (College of New Rochelle), Marcel De Maeyer (University of Ghent), and Robert Hoozee (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), along with a chronology by Xavier Tricot, serve to place Ensor's drawings in the context of both artistic and historical developments of his time and his oeuvre.

Catherine de Zegher is executive director of the Drawing Center in New York City and cocurator (with Robert Hoozee) of the exhibition "Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor."

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They're selling postcards of the hanging

They're painting the passports brown

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors

The circus is in town.

Bob Dylan, from "Desolation Row"

The Superhuman Crew brings together two visionary works of artJames Ensor's masterpiece painting Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 and Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row." The result is a riveting visual and verbal experience.

Ensor's huge, vibrant, and startling canvas presents a scene filled with clowns, masked figures, andbarely visible amid the swirling crowdsthe tiny figure of Christ on a donkey entering the city of Brussels. "Desolation Row," from Dylan's classic 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited, presents its own surreal portrait of modern life in strangely similar terms. These two vast works share a vision of the contemporary world as anarchic, grotesque, and absurd, and The Superhuman Crew combines them in a surprising, thought-provoking format. This book includes a complete reproduction and numerous details of Ensor's painting, the full text of Dylan's lyrics to "Desolation Row," and a compact disc with his recording of the song.

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Truly Wonderful.......2000-02-13

A thoroughly original concept brilliantly executed. Ensor and Dylan might seem like an odd pairing, but by the time one has finished enjoying this book, s/he will have gained insights into both of the artists and the works that probably could not have been conveyed in any other way. A pleasant surprise from a museum not known for originality or creativity. The Getty should publish more titles as memorable as this one.

A masterful combination of art and poetry.......1999-10-18

A great song, a great painting, an inventive way of putting them together. All of Dylan's greatest songs should be given this kind of treatment.

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