Re: Book recommendations? (FAQ?)

blueghost73_at_yahoo.com (Richard) wrote in message news:<c3e4d964.0308051951.49911bec_at_posting.google.com>...
> Ok, two questions:
>
> First, I'm looking for book recommendations for learning Oracle. I
> understand
> general db concepts from past experience with other types of databases
> (Image
> on MPE/iX, if that means anything to any of you, though I doubt if
> many of you
> (if any) have any idea what I'm talking about). I've also recently
> learned some

hey, MPE has posix, what's the problem? :-)

> basics of how to write simple SQL queries, but I'm still mostly a
> beginner at
> this stuff. My main focus at first is going to be learning to dig for
> data,
> but I'd also like to learn all the stuff that every good Oracle DBA
> needs to
> know.
>
> My big pet peeve in computer books is introductory books that give you
> just
> enough information to want to know more, while stopping just short of
> getting
> into the meat of the subject. Needless to say, I really hate the
> "Dummies"
> series. I'm not enough of a dummy for them, even when the book is on a
> subject
> that I know nothing about. I always come out of those books with more
> questions
> than answers.
>
> Just to throw a wrench in the works, I have to learn SQL Server at the
> same
> time as Oracle. This could be interesting, as I've been told that
> they're
> similar enough to make some of the basics useful in both, but
> different enough
> that I'm going to spend half my time trying to remember which details
> that I
> learned were for which database.
>
> Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days seems like it could be a pretty
> good
> starting point. I've noticed that the books published by Oracle are
> popular, but I've found that technical doc published by the company
> that makes a
> product is often better to use as a reference than a tutorial. Is that
> true
> in this case? Anyone have any thoughts on these or other books (both
> for
> Oracle and SQL)?
>
> Second question: Is there an FAQ for this newsgroup? And the bonus
> question:
> are there book recommendations in the FAQ? :)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> --Richard

Besides what the others said, there are a number of FAQ sites, including:

www.orafaq.com http://www.orafaq.com/books/index.htm

http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html

http://www.quest-pipelines.com/

http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/faq/

http://www.tusc.com/oracle/download/available.html

http://www.arikaplan.com/bookstore/bookstore.html

http://www.orakle.com/

jg

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