Re: BOOK

From: Ed Prochak <edprochak_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:26:49 GMT
Message-ID: <3E845F8A.5070709@adelphia.net>

Ryan wrote:

> "Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:3e822b7e_2_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
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>>"news.csu.net" <yo_at_yo.com> wrote in message
>>news:b5t6oh$28sec$1_at_hades.csu.net...
>>What would be a good book on PL/SQL or SQL *Plus.
>>I'm just a beginner with no SQL experience at all.
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>>I'd suggest starting with Oracle (version) - The Complete Reference, by
>>Loney et al. It's a good grounding, IMHO.
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>>Regards,
>>Paul
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> you cant learn from that as an utter beginner. Its a reference book. Get the
> SQL and PL/SQL Workbooks from Prentice Hall.

Nothing against the Prentice Hall books, I just wanted to make this clear: Contrary to the title, The Complete Reference does have a LARGE portion of tutorial chapters. (One of my big complaints about it actually.)

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> go to otn.oracle.com go to downloads. Just download the database and the
> 'personal edition'.

Good suggestion.

> 
> These books provide you with a same schema(groups of tables) and lots of
> practice problems. Doesnt have much depth, but good for the utter novice.
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