Also, must read: Kirk McKusick: Design & Implementation of BSD 4.4 A. Tannenbaum: Modern Operating Systems Randall Schwartz: Learning Perl Damian Conway: Object Oriented Perl Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen: Programming Perl Kernighan-Ritchie: The C Programming Language. N. Wirth: Data Structures+Algorithms=Programs Bjarne Stroustrup: The C++ Programming Language (3d ed.) Bill Rosenblatt: Learning Korn Shell Jeff Friedl: Mastering Regular Expressions Lex & Yacc book (O'Reilly Publishers) C. Millsap: Optimizing Oracle for Performance J. Lewis: Practical Oracle 8i T. Kyte: Effective Oracle by Design D. Adams, Hitchiker Guide To Galaxy trilogy (all 6 parts). S. Adams (no relation to D. Adams) Oracle 8i Internals Tolkien: Lord Of The Rings. R. Heinlein: Stranger in the strange land. R. Sheckley: Citizen in Space G. Vidal: Burr, 1876, Julian. L. Peter: Peter's Principle Aristophanes: The Birds. Must Watch: The Life Of Brian, M.P. and the Holy Grail. OK. That is enough material over the weekend. -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -----Original Message----- From: Reidy, Ron [mailto:Ron.Reidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:43 AM To: brian.peasey@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: OT - Orientation for developers new to Oracle 1. Concepts manual 2. SQL*Plus manual 3. PL/SQL developer's guide 4. Tuning manual -- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc