Re: Good ORACLE Books

From: Richard Sutherland <rvsutherland_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:28:38 -0500
Message-ID: <t69etg9btr8haa@corp.supernews.com>

Steve's comments are always worth paying attention to. But there are a few helpful books out there. Not for the beginner who started this thread, but the best Oracle book to date, IMHO, is Jonathan Lewis' book. His web site which has Oracle tips and advice (and info on the book) is:

http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Richard Sutherland
rvsutherland_at_yahoo.com

Steven Hauser <hause011_at_garnet.tc.umn.edu> wrote in message news:9426o1$p15$1_at_garnet.tc.umn.edu...
> I prefer the Oracle manuals to most books about Oracle.
>
> Most books are out of date by the time I see them.
> And many tasty little DBA scripts are on the internet.
> The books I do read are more system admin, software engineering,
> data modelling type books that can be applied to all systems and RDBMS.
>
> Other RDBMS product manuals (Informix, Sybase, DB2, ..) are also
> very good to compare and contrast features and approaches to RDBMS.
> (Check out DB2 and Oracle sqlload utilities, HEH)
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