Re: Good Beginner Oracle book recommendations:

Highly recommend the Oracle DBA Bible by Gennick. It has 31 chapters, each one on a key topic. It's designed for beginners. If you have a question about something you can read the one chapter on that topic and quickly pick up the essentials, along with practical solutions. Even though you've never used Oracle, you'd be able to read a chapter in the evening, understand the basics of a topic and march into work the next day with five practical things to do to.

The Oracle Concepts manual (part of Oracle documentation) is also great, and not just because it's free. Grab some three hole punch paper, print it out, stick it in a binder and read.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:05 AM

> Hello,
> I inherited an oracle database not too long ago, and I've never used
Oracle.
> So far it's running fine and I've been able to wing the startup/shutdown
procedures
> from looking on the net, and most of the time just keeping my fingers
crossed.
> Went to the book store yesterday, there are a lot of Oracle books, but I
> decided before I go and spend anywhere from $60 - $100, I'd like to know
what
> books you guys would recommend a semi-newbie Oracle DBA.
> I'm looking for something that I can use as a reference when I need to,
and
> also something I can read in my spare time to better understand Oracle.
>
>
>
>
> www.nul.cjb.net
> www.FreeBSD.org
>
>
>
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