Re: Looking for an intro book on Oracle

There is also an easy to read and excellent book  "Oracle Programming A Primer" by Rajshekha Sunderraman Published by Addison Wesley, ISBN = 0-201-35753-4 Chek this out.

Ken North wrote:

> Cory C. Albrecht wrote in message <7e0v0h$7q1ci_004_at_news.sentex.ca>...
> >
> >I'm looking for suggestions for introductory Oracle programming
> books.
>
> This is a book I've recommended for a few years. It doesn't go through
> step-by-step projects, but it follows an excellent model for teaching
> Oracle:
>
> - introducing SQL
> - Oracle system architecture
> - operational integrity
> - recovery
> - database tuning
> - PL/SQL
> and so on.
>
> I don't know if there is a recent edition, but you can look for a
> newer book when you are ready to use features that are specific to
> Oracle 8i. The teaching material in this book won't be obsolete -- it
> just won't have information about topics such as Java, Data Cartridges
> and IFS.
>
> Oracle 7: A User's and Developer's Guide, Including Release 7.1
> by Gunther Sturner (Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN 0-442-01962-9, 1995)
>
> ==========================================================
> Database Magic with Ken North
> (the first book to explain Java in the database)
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North/dbmagic.htm
Received on Thu Apr 29 1999 - 07:25:55 CDT