Re: Searching for a good, basic Oracle 8i Personal Edition BOOK

writer_at_writemaster.com wrote in message news:<3c1a56f3.142224854_at_news.writemaster.com>...
> I just obtained Oracle 8i Personal Edition.
>
> Borders Books has a huge selection of Oracle Books. Some are for
> Oracle 9, some are clearly for specialized, advanced applications.
> Even among the Oracle 8i books, many assume one has Enterprise
> Edition. (For example, Oracle 8i For Dummies -- don't laugh --
> assumes one has DBA Assistant, and much of the book is devoted to
> that. Personal Edition doesn't come with DBA Assistant.)
>
> I am trying to learn Oracle from scratch -- how to administer personal
> databases, create databases, work with a database using SQL (and at
> this point I don't know SQL, just that it's out there), basics of
> forms and reports. And I'm trying to understand the parts of the
> monster octopus that Oracle appears to be. (I've worked in C++, MFC,
> Java, and other languages, and I've never seen such a complex mess of
> interacting parts. I have no idea what the underlying structure is,
> nor what most of the specific programs do.)
>
> Can anyone recommend a book, meant for Oracle 8i Personal Edition,
> that assumes no prior knowledge, and does an effective job covering
> the basics from the ground up? Title, Author, and Publisher would be
> helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve O.
> writer_at_writemaster.com

I have been working with Oracle Products for about 10 Years now and the book I see most often on the selves of my fellow developers is Title: Oracle8i The Complete Reference
Author: Kevin Loney, George Koch
Publisher: Osborne
ISBN: 0072123648
URL @ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072123648/qid=1008381399/sr=12-1/102-4997046-1828127

I have a copy of this on my shelf and no I do not work at amazon. Though I believe they use Oracle pretty heavily. This book will take you from crawling, to cruising, to walking and running. It has a good introduction to SQL and Oracle Database structure.

Happy Computing, 8)
Gary A. Received on Fri Dec 14 2001 - 20:12:19 CST