RE: Slightly Off Topic : Book recommendation ... (Oracle DBA 101)

Dan,

Thank YOU for the compliment.... especially since we had hoped to have the book used as part of class work!

Rachel

>From: "MILLS, DAN G (CONTRACTOR)" <DAN.G.MILLS_at_DFAS.MIL>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: Slightly Off Topic : Book recommendation ... (Oracle DBA 101)
>Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:20:28 -0800
>
>Hi all,
>
>I just subscribed and would like to introduce myself and this seems to be
>an appropriate kickoff topic.
>
>I teach the Oracle DBA classes for IUPUI and Perpetual Technologies, Inc.
>in Indianapolis. We give the students a complimentary Oracle Press book
>with each or our classes i.e. Oracle8 Backup and Recovery guide for our
>Advanced class. I would like to commend Rachel for her excellent DBA 101
>book which we recently started handing out to the students of our Intro to
>Oracle DBA class. There have been several compliments on the book from
>students thus far.
>
>Cheers,
>Dan Mills
>OCP 7,8,8i DBA
>Perpetual Technologies, Inc.
>Department of Defense
>Defense Finance and Accounting Service
>Indianapolis, IN
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 11:01 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>101)
>
>
>Rachel,
>
> Thanx for the extra info. It sounds just like the book I need at the
>moment. Especially because I seem to understand exactly what that panicky
>feeling you write about feels like :-)
> Also, the recommendation of one of the author's herself will
>convince my boss to accept the bill ...
>
> Greets,
>
> Kirsten
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:carmichr_at_hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:00 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Slightly Off Topic : Book recommendation ... (Oracle DBA
> > 101)
> >
> > Kirsten and Tim (and everyone else here :) )
> >
> > Tim is right, DBA 101 was designed especially for beginners who have
>been
> > thrown into Oracle (or who are just starting out, having made the
>decision
> >
> > themselves)... we tried to cover the basics, and we know we left things
> > out,
> > but the book would have been twice the size (and price!) if we had
> > included
> > all we wanted to....
> >
> > Way too many years ago to admit to (okay, 10) I became the Oracle DBA
> > where
> > I was working -- and I had never worked with Oracle before. My aim in
> > writing the book was to relieve others of that panicky feeling I had
>had.
> >
> > And I would also recommend Kevin's (and Marlene's in the 8i edition) DBA
> > Handbook. We tried to make DBA 101 a lead-in to the Handbook, give you
>the
> >
> > basics so Kevin could get down into the nitty-gritty.
> >
> > I'd also recommend Kevin's Complete Reference, and the Backup and
>Recovery
> >
> > Handbooks by Rama Velpuri. Marlene has written Networking 101 and there
> > will be a Tuning 101 book out at the end of this year (another of the
>list
> >
> > members is the author of this one, Gaja Vaidyanatha -- I've been
> > privileged
> > to read it as he is writing it, and it's GOOD!)
> >
> > Rachel
> >
> > >From: Tim Onions <tim.onions_at_speechmachines.com>
> > >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > >Subject: RE: Slightly Off Topic : Book recommendation ... (Oracle DBA
> > 101)
> > >Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 00:51:09 -0800
> > >
> > >Kirsten
> > >
> > >I have the book (actually autographed by both Rachel and Marlene!). I
> > find
> > >it very useful for things I do not do very often and need to check out.
> > It
> > >does not go very deep into any one subject (it is after all a
> > 101/beginners
> > >guide). It does, however, describe the principals of what to do and why
> > >very
> > >well. I have many other Oracle books but after the on-line manuals
> > >themselves and Feuerstein when I'm PL/SQL programming this is the one I
> > use
> > >most.
> > >
> > >For more detailed technical discussions though I'd recommend Kevin
> > Loney's
> > >books.
> > >
> > >HTH
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Sent: 24 November 2000 06:55
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > >Hi ...
> > >
> > > I've been looking around for some books to buy, and came across one
> > >that sounds very interesting to me. But I'd just like to make sure it
>is
> > >what I am looking for so that my boss won't go in a frenzy when I spend
> > his
> > >money on a book collecting dust up high on a shelf.
> > >
> > > I'm not questioning the knowledge of any of the authors. Seeing that
> > >at least one of them is a member of one of these lists, I do want to
>make
> > >that clear.
> > > (Please, Please, Please don't hold it against me o Godess Rachel
> > >...)
> > >
> > > The book I'm talking about is Oracle DBA 101 by Marlene Theriault,
> > >Rachel Carmichael & James Viscusi.
> > >
> > > What I'm looking for ???
> > > I've been enrolled as a DBA when my predecessor left the company.
> > >Interested as I was into the world of Oracle, which I only entered
>about
> > 2
> > >years earlier, I simply coudn't say no to the opportunity of learning
> > more
> > >about the way it works ...
> > > But with slightly less than a year experience, I really feel the
> > >need to more insight into what I must do, wat I should and what I can
>do,
> > >and of course, how to do it at all.
> > > That's why this book sounds interesting to me, as it is described to
> > >descibe in detail the day-to-day duties an how to accomplish them ...
> > >
> > > If anyone has read and/or used this book, please share your opinion
> > >about it with me. Of course, if Rachel herself wants to comment, please
> > >feel
> > >free...
> > >
> > > Hope I'm not out of line posting something like this on the list ...
> > >
> > >
> > > Greets,
> > >
> > >Kirsten
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