Re: Best Oracle book(s) to learn from??

Go to your bookstore and get a copy of Developing Personal Oracle7 for Windows 95 Applications by Lockman or Oracle Unleashed. The first book is better for learning from scratch. The good thing is that both of these books come with a CD which has a demo copy of Oracle 7 and Developer 2000. Lockman's book will step you through installation and developing.

This book is available in electronic form on the Net at http://www.mcp.com/personal.

You can probably also get these books from Amazon at 20% off plus the dreaded shipping cost. Or at a computer show.

If you have any trouble installing the CD let me know and I can help you.

Good Luck
Greg Teets
Cincinnati, OH
teetshd_at_ucbeh.san.uc.edu

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:53:50 -0500, Pendragon <pendragony_at_geocities.com> wrote:

>Owen Korkie wrote:
>>
>> Hi there:
>>
>> I am wondering if anybody has any suggestions on which are some of the
>> best books for a newbe to learn Oracle from. I have no experience what
>> so ever with Oracle and I plan on taking courses from our community
>> college but in the mean time, I want to start on my own. I would like
>> to know which book(s) is the easiest to understand as well as which has
>> examples and exericises to get practice on. Any help is greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Please e-mail me at okorkie_at_hotmail.com
>>
>> -thanks, Owen Korkie
>> Calgary, AB Canada
>I used Oracle, The Complete Reference from Oracle Press. It has
>examples for lots of stuff, but no actual exercises. It also has a
>fairly complete list and description of commands and terms. Also
>included is most of the data dictionary views and what they contain.
>It's not a great book, but it is a very useful book especially if you
>generaly know how relational databases work.
Received on Fri Jan 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CST