Re: Suggest Oracle Books?

I keep The Complete Reference on my desk and use it often. I think it's the best overall book on the 8i database.

Greg Teets
Cincinnati OH

On Mon, 14 May 2001 09:33:13 -0400, "Jean Farmer" <jean_at_kci.com> wrote:

>In the next two months my company will be getting a couple of Sun boxes
>running Solaris 8 and Oracle 8i. I need to get up to speed on Oracle and
>have little to no experience with it. I've been looking on the internet
>(like Amazon) and there are hundreds and hundreds of books, including dozens
>of O'Reilly books. I don't know what would be a good purchase to start off
>with. Eventually we will get some training, but I want to be up to speed
>ahead of time. Can you suggest any good books?
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>There are books on PL/SQL and also other versions of SQL, but I'm not sure
>what the difference between them are to know which ones to buy. Any help
>would be GREATLY appreciated. What are your favorite and most helpful
>reference books?
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>One of the ones I was looking at was "Oracle: The Complete Reference" for
>version 8i by Osborne. I was also looking at "Oracle Sql : The Essential
>Reference" (Oct 2000) from O'Reilly. But there are several PL/SQL books
>too, like "Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference" from O'Reilly that seems
>interesting. I'm a big fan of Pocket References. So does anyone have an
>opinion on a couple of good starter and/or reference books?
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>Thanks.
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  Received on Wed May 16 2001 - 15:52:44 CEST