Re: What Oracle book(s) would you recommend?

I think you're asking a lot, to cover all that in one or two books. Regarding PL/SQL, there's a book published by O'Reilly called Oracl PL/SQL Programming that's very good. Goes for about 47USD. ISBN is 1-56592-335-9.

nbc

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 01:20:45 -0000 "Gervase Lam" <gervase_at_lam.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a book (plus author(s), and if possible ISBN no.) that
>covers Oracle UNIX in a concise way. I only know enough bits of SQL to just
>get away with it, including PRO*C (with my good C knowledge).
>
>I'd like something on the lines of a Core book (e.g. Core Visual Basic) or
>like the language guides that used to (or still may do) come with every
>compiler you bought. I find that most tutorial books are a bit (far too?)
>chatty.
>
>So, is there a book that covers/explains the following areas...
>
>1) PL/SQL language, including compilation phases perhaps (.src -> .sql ->
>.plb)
>2) PRO*C language
>3) Function reference (preferably includes differences between v7 and v8)
>4) SQL prompt guide/command reference, e.g. setting page size (Is this
>SQL*Plus? :-) )
>5) SQL statement optimization guidelines (apparently there are 2 sections on
>this in the Oracle tune-up manual)
>6) System concepts (tablespaces, extents, RBS, re-do logs, how the data is
>physically/actually stored on disk etc...)
>
>System concepts is probably the least important of the lot, though I'd like
>to have an understanding of what's going on, even though I'm just
>programming. (For example why archive the re-do logs when you can just add
>one after the other? For file compression perhaps?)
>
>1) to 3), most probably 4), are the most essential.
>
>I've seen 85 pound books on Oracle stuff!! Obviously I'd like the book to
>be as cheap as possible. But if the cheaper option is to have 2 (or more!
>:-( ) books rather than 1, then include them in your recommendation!
>
>Thanks,
>Gervase
>
>
Received on Sun Mar 28 1999 - 11:51:46 CST