Re: New to Oracle

The concepts document is good if you have other programming knowledge if not it jumps around too much for a true beginner. I have not read Jonathan Lewis's book yet, but Tom Kyte's book is not good for a beginner. It assumes you know quite a bit.

When learning Oracle, you generally want to start with the two programming languages. Then you learn basic architecture(you will get that in the concepts document).

Try the ORACLE PL/SQL and ORACLE SQL workbooks from Prentice hall. Lots of excercises and a sample database.

You can go to otn.oracle.com and download the 9i database for free and buy it for $40.

"daniel" <test_at_test.com> wrote in message news:a8085a$i41$1_at_news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd_database_generic_8.1.7/server.817/index.htm
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> start with the concepts book
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Daniel.
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> "Jack" <jack852_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a17b0b6d.0203281344.2ee8430c_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hi Every Oracle Expert:
> >
> > I am a college student. I will start to learn SQL next semester. Is
> > there any good book for beginner about Oracle or how to design a
> > database? I have heard the book called Tom's Kyte's "Expert One On
> > One" and Johnathan Lewis's "Practical Oracle 8i" is quite good. Are
> > those books suitable for a beginner like me? Or do any of you have any
> > recommendation on which book I should start?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Jack
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>
Received on Thu Mar 28 2002 - 18:57:14 CST