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

You are right.
 I will avoid this recommendation for beginners - my book has some thick red  lines.
 Thanks for warning me!
Breno Gomes

jansher wrote:

> might wanna be careful with Kevin Loney's book, it's got a few inaccuracies...
>
> Breno de Avellar Gomes wrote:
>
> > An excellent book on Oracle Forms, including 5.0 and Forms Server is publushed by Prentice
> > Hall - ISBN 0-13-949033-7, "Developing Oracle Forms Applications", Albert Lulushi.
> >
> > "Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook", also from Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-918111-3 by Michael
> > Stowe
> >
> > "Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming", from Oracle Press, ISBN 0-07-882305-6, by Scott Urman
> >
> > "Oracle8, The Complete Reference", from Oracle Press, ISBN 0-07-882396-X, by George Koch &
> > Kevin Loney
> >
> > Fell free to ask me more references.
> >
> > Nicholas Couch wrote:
> >
> > > 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 Sat Apr 03 1999 - 12:32:59 CST