Re: What Oracle book(s) would you recommend?

might wanna be careful with Kevin Loney's book, it's got a few inaccuracies...

Breno de Avellar Gomes wrote:

> An excellent book on Oracle Forms, including 5.0 and Forms Server is publushed by Prentice
> Hall - ISBN 0-13-949033-7, "Developing Oracle Forms Applications", Albert Lulushi.
>
> "Oracle Developer/2000 Handbook", also from Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-918111-3 by Michael
> Stowe
>
> "Oracle8 PL/SQL Programming", from Oracle Press, ISBN 0-07-882305-6, by Scott Urman
>
> "Oracle8, The Complete Reference", from Oracle Press, ISBN 0-07-882396-X, by George Koch &
> Kevin Loney
>
> Fell free to ask me more references.
>
> Nicholas Couch wrote:
>
> > I think you're asking a lot, to cover all that in one or two books. Regarding PL/SQL,
> > there's a book published by O'Reilly called Oracl PL/SQL Programming that's very good.
> > Goes for about 47USD. ISBN is 1-56592-335-9.
> >
> > nbc
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 01:20:45 -0000 "Gervase Lam" <gervase_at_lam.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >Can anyone recommend a book (plus author(s), and if possible ISBN no.) that
> > >covers Oracle UNIX in a concise way. I only know enough bits of SQL to just
> > >get away with it, including PRO*C (with my good C knowledge).
> > >
> > >I'd like something on the lines of a Core book (e.g. Core Visual Basic) or
> > >like the language guides that used to (or still may do) come with every
> > >compiler you bought. I find that most tutorial books are a bit (far too?)
> > >chatty.
> > >
> > >So, is there a book that covers/explains the following areas...
> > >
> > >1) PL/SQL language, including compilation phases perhaps (.src -> .sql ->
> > >.plb)
> > >2) PRO*C language
> > >3) Function reference (preferably includes differences between v7 and v8)
> > >4) SQL prompt guide/command reference, e.g. setting page size (Is this
> > >SQL*Plus? :-) )
> > >5) SQL statement optimization guidelines (apparently there are 2 sections on
> > >this in the Oracle tune-up manual)
> > >6) System concepts (tablespaces, extents, RBS, re-do logs, how the data is
> > >physically/actually stored on disk etc...)
> > >
> > >System concepts is probably the least important of the lot, though I'd like
> > >to have an understanding of what's going on, even though I'm just
> > >programming. (For example why archive the re-do logs when you can just add
> > >one after the other? For file compression perhaps?)
> > >
> > >1) to 3), most probably 4), are the most essential.
> > >
> > >I've seen 85 pound books on Oracle stuff!! Obviously I'd like the book to
> > >be as cheap as possible. But if the cheaper option is to have 2 (or more!
> > >:-( ) books rather than 1, then include them in your recommendation!
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Gervase
> > >
> > >
Received on Fri Apr 02 1999 - 06:38:35 CST