Re: Recommend an Awesome Oracle book

We've used pretty heavily the O'Reilly books and found them very helpful (though not perfect). http://oracle.oreilly.com/ They tend to *evaluate* as well as explain.

We only bought one Oracle Press book (Oracle 8 Architecture). That book is well-written and has good diagrams as well as examples. It's not as strong on the evaluation-stuff--i.e. whether you'd actually want to use bitmap indexes or partitioned tables, or whether the oracle- community will start using custom defined object-types, etc. I didn't expect much critique from Oracle's mouthpiece. http://www.osborne.com/oracle/

The oracle online documentation is good, but books are easier to read. I use the PDF docs a lot. However, if I need to print out a 700-page manual and have the copy-shop bind it, I'd rather spend $30 and get a bound book.

Per your questions:

> a. types, indexes, sql stuff, etc

Oracle 8 Design Tips (O'Reilly)
Oracle Design (O'Reilly)
Oracle Architecture (Oracle Press)
Oracle PL/SQL Programming 2nd Edition (O'Reilly) Oracle Essentials: Oracle8 and Oracle8i (O'Reilly)

> b. discuss optimizations, performance tuning in sql...
Oracle DBA Essential Reference (O'Reilly) Oracle 8i internal services (O'Reilly) --pretty hardcore. not for beginners.

Someone on the newsgroup praised-to-high-heavens Oracle 24x7 Tips & Techniques (Oracle), though I haven't read it.

If it's the company's money, buy all the books that sound interesting. Even if you spend $500, that's nothing compared to wasted money on salaries. The right book can help in a crisis and can keep you from making bad decisions.

If it's your money, start, perhaps with Oracle Essentials 8i simply to learn 8i's new features. Or perhaps the Oracle 8 Architecture book.

In article <38976A7B.FAFB642D_at_yahoo.com>,   Steve Parker <wakatuka_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can somebody please recommend an awesome book(s) that covers
relational
> DB design and development using Oracle (8i)...
>
> a. types, indexes, sql stuff, etc
> b. discuss optimizations, performance tuning in sql...
>
> any help is much appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> steve
>
>

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Before you buy. Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 14:54:34 CST