Re: Suggest Oracle Books?

From: the_DBA <the_DBA_at_swbell.net>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:45:13 -0500
Message-ID: <20%L6.56$kx3.114157@nnrp2.sbc.net>

Jean,

Sadly (perhaps), you'll not likely "learn" Oracle from a book. However, I found Oracle Corp's "DBA Certification Exam Guide (something like that -- $100 from Osborne)" to provide a good/solid intro to "ivory tower Oracle." The Complete Reference (same press) is a wonderful resource -- great for the syntax section in the back. O'Reilly makes a good performance tuning book (2nd Ed.) -- covers capacity planning & design, too. Good luck.

BTW: Install Oracle on your home machine -- it's free to download (expensive to license). Even better, setup a Linux box with 8.1.7 -- you'll surely learn a bit. Again, it's free... (don't forget to set the libc path if you're using RedHat) Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 19:45:13 CDT