Re: Oracle Books

I bought the book that you mention by Albert Lulushi and although I agree it's a good book it's not all you need. I have found that much of my learning (I'm a co-op student working in Oracle Forms 6 for the summer) has come from this very newsgroup. That said, I'd like to tak the opportunity to thank everyone who has helped me. I'm almost finished my little project and I wouldn't have been able to do it without you.

Thanks again,
Shelli

Suresh Bhat wrote:

> Ann,
>
> Contrary to what Paul Dorsey said in his post, I think you can learn the
> basics of Oracle as long as you have access to some Oracle database and a
> couple of books that he mentioned.
>
> I have never taken any Oracle/UNIX/Windows or any other classes but learned
> everything on the job and by doing things and reading books.
>
> Now a days on MS Windows there is good help, que cards, query by examples
> and plain examples available on any of the Oracle products in on line help.
> A case in point is Forms 5.0.
>
> Most Oracle jobs are in Forms design and developing. At any shop you need
> 1 DBA and posssibly
> 10 to 15 developers and most of them would be developing forms and/or
> reports. Even though I am a DBA and have come through the application
> development side I still enjoy forms development.
>
> I would postpone DBA stuff until couple of years later down the road when
> you get familiar with Oracle.
> For right now I would suggest concentrate on SQl, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL and
> Forms.
>
> If you ask me which 1 Oracle book I would recommend for Forms, SQL, PL/SQL
> etc. That would be
>
> Oracle Developer/2000 Forms. The Practitoner's Guide by Albert Lulushi
>
> Although, it is heavily oriented towards forms design, it also does a good
> job on SQL and PL/SQL for beginners and it costs less than $45 at
> Amazon.com. You can also browse it at Barnes and Noble.
>
> Good luck !!!
>
> Suresh bhat
> Oracleguru
> www.oracleguru.net
> oracleguru_at_mailcity.com
>
> Ann <arroo99_at_yahoo.com> wrote in article
> <arroo99-0308992121210001_at_ts48l36.pathcom.com>...
> > I am thinking of learning Oracle on my own.
> >
> > Are there any good Oracle books that teach how to program with Oracle?
> > (for beginners)
> >
> > What tools would I need to use to program in Oracle?
> >
> > Ann
> >
Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 18:06:22 CEST