Re: Are Oracle 8 books OK for v7.3?

In my opinion the 7.3 books are fine for 8.0. The 8 production CD (at least mine) comes about 95M of HTML documentation which is all I use. I have several of the handbooks listed and use them as supplements sometimes. The 8.0 Oracle doc's ARE expensive but I was told most was contained in the HTML.

Brian McCullogh wrote:

> We currently have Oracle 7.3.2 running on Windows NT 4. I would like
> to buy a few supplementary Oracle Press handbooks, but the budget for
> such items is very tight. After reading a recent post on Oracle-L that
> lamented the expense of buying a new set of handbooks for each release
> of Oracle 7, I am looking for a way to stretch the funds available to me
> as far as possible.
>
> Would the Oracle 8 handbooks have enough overlap to cover v7.3, for
> a newcomer to Oracle? I have taken the "Intro to Oracle" and the
> "DBA Admin" courses, and my background is in IMS/DLI and
> Natural/Adabas on MVS. In particular, I am interested in the
> following handbooks:
>
> DBA
> Backup & Recovery
> Troubleshooting
> Tuning
> Advanced Tuning & Administration.
>
> TIA for any advice.
>
> Brian McCullogh
> Information Systems Resources
> McGill University
> brian_at_ums1.lan.mcgill.ca
Received on Fri Dec 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CST