Re: Any book called Oracle Internals?

There are many books that discuss the architecture of Oracle. I would recommend you to read “The concepts manual’. If your goal is to understand the Oracle internals, you must read this manual.

Murali

Jerry Gitomer wrote in message <719obh$3to$1_at_client3.news.psi.net>...
>Hi,
>
>You shouldn't be starting with books on RDBMS internals. Instead start
with
>books such as C.J.Date's book (I think the title is Introduction to
>Relational Databases). The ideal starting point, if you can find a copy,
is
>Codd's 1970 paper on relational database management systems since it
>concisely describes the characteristics of an RDBMS.
>
>regards
>
>Jerry
>
>
>yong wrote in message <36364290.8C4B9794_at_shell.com>...
>>If you search at Amazon.com on "unix internals" or even "sybase
>>internals", you'll get some books. But there's no such thing as Oracle
>>Internals. I'm interested in knowing how a database system is different
>>from a file system, how Oracle8 could possibly be something like an
>>operating system. Thanks for advice.
>>
>>Yong Huang
>>Email:yong_at_shell.com
>>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 14:01:10 CST