Re: Good ORACLE Books

Interesting you mentioned that book. It's good to have it because you don't want to carry manuals around. It's bad because the authors know nothing beyond saying what's already in the manual. Look at my review on Amazon.com titled "How to write a book adding value to manuals".

Also, the authors are quite sloppy in writing (even though O'Reilly corrected most if not all typos). E.g., on one page, the authors refer to the LRU end of the LRU list as tail. On another page, they refer to that as head. Oracle jargon can be used if you at least keep consistent. But the best books are still Oracle manuals i.e. documentation free from technet, accurate, accurate and very accurate, and they avoid using bad jargon.

Yong Huang
yong321_at_yahoo.com

In article <93q2bu$55o$1_at_diana.bcn.ttd.net>,   "Pablo Martinez" <jpabloma_at_idecnet.com> wrote:
> Hello Sherman
>
> > What would be the good books to start
> > with?
> >
>
> We have used some O'Reilly books in my company.
>
> I like the next one because it is interesting both for the begginer
 and for
> the intermediate DBA:
>
> Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Reference
> By David Kreines & Brian Laskey
>
> Hope this helps.
> Regards
> Pablo Martinez

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