I've looked. In my opinion the 9i Couchman books have a lot fewer errors
than the earlier versions.
"Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
news:abmb7502ehn_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> In article <24637f40.0205120414.52445e96_at_posting.google.com>,
> prodbsolutions_at_yahoo.com.au says...
> >
> >I have been into Progress DBMS for a couple of years. I have been
> >thinking of taking an Oracle9i OCP certification exams in the near
> >future, but I am new to Oracle and have only some Oracle database
> >administration knowledge (such as quering tables, and upgrading tables
> >structures). I have had Oracle8i installed on my Windows NT 4.0
> >server, and it soon will be upgraded to Oracle9i.
> >
> >I would like to get one set of Oracle certification books, probably
> >OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set (by Jason S. Couchman), and
> >using all the resources available to get an Oracle9i OCP
> >certification.
> >
> >Has anyone, with similar background as mine, passed the exam by doing
> >the same (or similar) way?
> >
> >Thank you in advance.
> >
> >Danny
> >Progress Developer
>
> Danny
>
> Almost certainly people have done this before. In fact, one of the best
Oracle
> instructors I knew came from a Progress background, and learnt Oracle by
playing
> around with it, asking questions and so on. WIll it be easier if you had
> experience? Undoubtedly.
>
> As for the books, I would suggest searching through this newsgroup for
some
> discussions going back a few months. Apparently Couchman's books had a
number
> of errors in the 8i and earlier releases. A lot of that information was
> provided to Jason, but I'm not sure if it was in time to have an effect on
the
> 9i books. I also haven't personally looked at the 9i release of his
books, so I
> can't verify whether changes were made.
>
> HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
>
> Pete
>
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Received on Sun May 12 2002 - 19:50:05 CDT
