Oracle Classic Book Recommendations

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Many netizens ask how to choose a book to get started, learn how Oracle has good books, here are some common books to introduce. First of all, this article only deals with foreign works, because the domestic works are very few, mostly patchwork. When it comes to getting started, I have to move tom (Thomas Kyte) out. He has introduced in Ask Tom and his latest book What he considers to be a better learning pathway and reading material. He recommended the data are Oracle's official documents, a netizen in the version is also proposed is not read through the document can be. To be sure, if you read through the documentation and remember 50% of them, you're already very good, and my lifetime is not likely to be read through--for a total of 48 documents for 9IR2

Total 46000 + pages! Tom gives the required reading documents and order, which I briefly describe as follows:

All personnel

Concepts

|

New Features

_________________|_______________

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Developer DBA

Application Backup & Recovery

Dev Guide (Fundamentals) concepts

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PL/SQL User guide Recovery Reference

& References |

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Performance Administrators ' Guide

Planning |

|_________________________________|

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Performance

& tunning Guide

Let's talk about books.

Domestic comparative best-selling when the machinery industry press black that set, which a lot of fine. The Getting Started Oracle

9i Beginner's Guide is easy to understand and is a good helper for getting started. The development aspect of Oracle 9i PL/SQL Programming,

The DBA "Oracle 9i DBA Handbook", Tuning Aspects of the Oracle 9i Performance Tuning guide are classic books,

Choose it as needed. I think that the Oracle 9i reference manual is a good book, more comprehensive and practical, the parties

The surface involved is not in depth.

Other classic books can't bypass Tom, his "Oracle Expert Advanced Programming" (Expert one-by-

On Oracle is the absolute classic, unfortunately the Chinese version has been spoiled by the translation, I am looking at, where the translation of the terminology

Very strange, some unintelligible, indeed a bit tired, but the content in-depth, involving Oracle internal structure, lock mechanism, guide

The use of exports, performance tuning, and so many other aspects. Mainly based on Oracle 8.1.7, but with his exact words

For example, 99% can be used without any change to 9i. He also wrote another new book based on this book, "effective

Oracle by Design (2003), there is no translated version in China, to buy only Amazon, it is now a drop

The price. The main content is a set of development, such as team development in the Division of labor, the principle of development, performance tuning Excellence

such as The contents and catalogue of the two books can be seen by the asktom.oracle.com, and in general they are Masters .

For the work.

In fact, these books are already very sufficient, add up tens of thousands of pages also have. But if you want to test the OCP, look

Student Guide (everyone on earth knows?) :)), I just finished reading 007 and 031 Vol.1, the general feeling is to explain also

In detail, the content is not very deep, but really very comprehensive. In addition it is as a tutorial form, so a lot of things are compiled

The row takes into account the difficulty and so on, instead of the general reference manual, one data object, type is thoroughly spoken. Look at this

Document and you can read it together with the official documents and books mentioned above.

Finally, by the way, the Database Foundation book. Before learning Oracle, you should read the basic book before you even have a primary key.

I feel more pain when I start learning Oracle in white. I only write two titles, both of which have Chinese version, I have seen

The latter, the feeling is very good, but the latter may need a better discrete mathematical basis, involving the basic theory will be more points. Former

Thicker, so it's free for you to explain slowly, but I personally feel a bit verbose. It's all classic anyway!

Introduction to the Database

"Database Concept" (fourth edition)

Recommended for Oracle Classic books