Re: Suggest Oracle Books?

Actually, the best single book to get people up to speed - whether newbie, upgrader or old hand coming from a different system - is O'Reilly's Oracle Essentials ( http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oressentials/ )

It provides an excellent springboard for all the other reading material around.

The books listed below are great, after you've learned the basics, but they are totally overwhelming for a starter situation. The Oracle Essentials gives you enough to be able to review the rest and make rational decisions on what will serve your needs.

/Hans

the_DBA wrote:

> 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 - 20:42:38 CDT