Re: Experienced DBA but New to Oracle

red_valsen_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> I am an experienced DBA with other DBMSes and am making the transition
> to Oracle. What references can members of the Oracle community
> recommend for a smoother switch -- essential OEM manuals, 3rd-party
> books, websites, news groups, online courses, useful certifications to
> pursue, do's-don'ts-gotchas lists, etc? Your experienced insight is
> greatly appreciated.

HPUXRAC is absolutely correct. Tom Kyte's books are the starting point: Even more important than all the published docs at tahiti.

The things you must understand are how Oracle's underlying concepts and architecture differ (and substantially) from what you have worked with in the past. When you grok multiversioning, the transaction model, locking, and why and how reads don't block writes and writes don't block reads, you are ready for Oracle's own docs.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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