Re: Good DBA Book

Totally agree with your choices.

However, I'd also suggest the following section in Technet (http://technet.oracle.com):

  Oracle Technology Network > Documentation > Oracle8i > General Documentation, Release 3 (8.1.7) > Oracle8i Server and SQL*Plus to get to the following (free) manuals

Getting to Know Oracle8i ,
Oracle8i Administrator's Guide , and
Oracle8i Concepts

especially the Administrator's Guide.

I've also ranted about the O'Reilly Press - Oracle Essentials as a good overview (http://oracle.oreilly.com). Everything in there is light weight and probably too superficial in this particular case, but it's an excellent way of getting up to speed to the point where the other manuals and books being mentioned actually make sense.

/Hans

Yong Huang wrote:

> I followed the same advice a few years ago and bought the second book
> you mentioned. It's a good one but I've rarely touched it since what's
> in there is in documentation. What's not in documentation is in books
> by Steve Adams, Jonathan Lewis, James Morle, and their Web sites plus
> metalink. Because I so strongly believe what's the value in a book,
> one of my book reviews at Amazon.com is titled "How to write a book
> adding value to manuals" (the book is David Kreine's Oracle Database
> Administration).
>
> That being said, Kevin Loney is a good guy and his book is accurate,
> free of erros (I haven't found one) and worth reading if a computer is
> not readily available.
>
> Yong Huang
>
> "Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message news:<3B379CEA.19EF5098_at_attws.com>...
> >
> > Oracle Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide ... forget the exam
> > but read the book. Couchman, Oracle Press
> >
> > Oracle 8i DBA Handbook, also Oracle Press, by Loney & Theriault
  Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 00:25:05 CDT