Re: Books to suggest

  • From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:33:19 -0700 (PDT)

What? You mean to tell me you haven't bought a copy so I could get that
$0.0001 in royalties?

Seriously, we did try to make DBA 101 as basic as we could. And in
general, we tried to make it version UNspecific. We did note where
things were different between versions. Based on comments from readers
of the first version, we did about a 60% rewrite of the 9i version --
not to include the "cool" 9i stuff but to make concepts clearer. It's
hard to include all the new stuff, while keeping the important old
stuff, when you don't get an increased page count.

 Publishers feel, rightly or wrongly, however that the buying public
wants the latest version number on the cover of the book.... So
Jonathan's book, version unspecific that it is, loses because of that
silly "8i" on the cover.


--- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:57:38 +0300, Thalis Kalfigopoulos
> <t.kalfigopoulos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Apparently Jonathan's "Practical Oracle 8i" is a pretty highly
> appreciated/respected/used book. On
> > the other hand I am a bit worried about going for such an
> oudated[?] Oracle version even though I
> > assume from the book's Contents that it talks about a lot of
> Oracle's internals/basics, which
> > obviously haven't changed that dramatically even in 10g. Is my
> assumption safe or should I be
> > worried about the "8i" in the title?
> 
> From the preface
> 
> "My strategy for tackling problems is the same regardless of the
> version of Oracle with which I am working, so when you read this book
> you don't really have to worry about which version of Oracle you are
> using. "
> 
> I have to say that I think if I were recommending a book to start
> with
> - especially for someone who is new to Oracle but not to the field in
> general - I'd go for Expert One on One Oracle from Tom Kyte.
> 
> I haven't read DBA 101 (sorry Rachel) but that ought to be a pretty
> good foundation type book as well.
> 
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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