Oracle book suggestion

Dave77 · 26 Mar 2007 at 13:01

Hello,

Can someone suggest a book for learning the basics of Oracle 10g. More on the management side than actual PL/SQL programming.

Thanks,

Dave.

Visage · 26 Mar 2007 at 13:06

Dave77 said:
Hello,

Can someone suggest a book for learning the basics of Oracle 10g. More on the management side than actual PL/SQL programming.

Thanks,

Dave.

The oracle documentation is pretty good in this regard. Is there a specific area you're looking at?

Dave77 · 26 Mar 2007 at 13:40

Visage said:
The oracle documentation is pretty good in this regard. Is there a specific area you're looking at?

No specific area, I have just installed 10g on my Solaris machine and want to get a bit of experience using it. Such as using sql plus, managing archivelogs, different types of backups, rman etc. Recovery techniques etc

happytechie · 26 Mar 2007 at 13:57

Oracle's documentation is all of technet, you won't get any better than that.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html

The Oracle unleashed series of books are quite good but I haven't read the 9i or 10g ones.

failing that if you have any specific questions just ask on here, there are a few oracle DBAs about