Re: Suggest Oracle Books?

In my opinion, the best way to get started for someone without any Oracle experience, especially SQL, is to read Oracle8i: The Complete Reference.

"Jean Farmer" <jean_at_kci.com> wrote in message news:3affd722$0$144_at_wodc7nh1.news.uu.net...
> In the next two months my company will be getting a couple of Sun boxes
> running Solaris 8 and Oracle 8i. I need to get up to speed on Oracle and
> have little to no experience with it. I've been looking on the internet
> (like Amazon) and there are hundreds and hundreds of books, including
 dozens
> of O'Reilly books. I don't know what would be a good purchase to start
 off
> with. Eventually we will get some training, but I want to be up to speed
> ahead of time. Can you suggest any good books?
>
> There are books on PL/SQL and also other versions of SQL, but I'm not sure
> what the difference between them are to know which ones to buy. Any help
> would be GREATLY appreciated. What are your favorite and most helpful
> reference books?
>
> One of the ones I was looking at was "Oracle: The Complete Reference" for
> version 8i by Osborne. I was also looking at "Oracle Sql : The Essential
> Reference" (Oct 2000) from O'Reilly. But there are several PL/SQL books
> too, like "Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference" from O'Reilly that seems
> interesting. I'm a big fan of Pocket References. So does anyone have an
> opinion on a couple of good starter and/or reference books?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 19:11:41 CDT