Re: Learning Oracle

"Antonio Cangiano [visualcsharp.it]" <yahoo_at_ilcangiano.it> wrote in message news:<lqsrb.102121$vO5.4024292_at_twister1.libero.it>...
> Dear friends,
> I'm a .NET Developer with good skills on IT in general (development,
> operating systems, alghoritms and applicate math, etc...etc...).
> I'd like to learn Oracle in a professional way, initially by a development
> prospective and after by administration view. I've two books on my desktop:
>
> Oracle Expert One on one:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590592433/002-5240430-4881602?v=glance
> and Oracle PL/SQL Programming 3rd edition:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596003811/002-5240430-4881602?v=glance
>
> Could you please give me some suggests for learning from these two books?
> Should I read "Oracle PL/SQL" before and after "Oracle Expert One on One"?
> Which is the best study path in your opinion?
>
> Do you have some general advice for my learning?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Antonio

Since your a .NET developer, short term you are primarily interested in the programming aspect of oracle right? You want to get started quick right?

Start with SQL and PL/SQL. The Fuerstein book is quite good for an experienced programmer. You will have no problem picking up PL/SQL.

The Kyte book is NOT a programming book. Its more of an Architecture book. You should definitely read that second, it has more advanced topics.

Id also recommend the concepts document that daniel morgan pointed too. Its free. This will touch on alot of stuff. Skip over the stuff on Java, XML, Fine Graned Access Control. The meat of that document is in the first 10 chapters or so I believe. The base architecture stuff. The rest you can come back to and learn later, you wont remember it all the first time you read it anyway.

Thats good to get you started. On OTN, Id also keep a link to the 'search' page for docs. Its much easier to look up error messages and syntax problems that way too. SQL Reference though lacking in examples, is useful for that as well.

BTW, ignore the data modelling stuff for now. Its like teach a guy in Computer Science 1, OO Design, when they dont even know what an object is yet. Received on Mon Nov 10 2003 - 06:33:03 CST