NEWBIE looking for DBA documentation

[Le Dave]

Hi,

I play with Oracle server (7/8/9) on WinNT/2000/XP for almost 3 years
now. If I could help my self googling and digging newsgroups, I'd like
to structure a bit all the fragments of my knowledge and become a true
Oracle DBA.

So, appart from the nice Oracle books, could you point me some nice
books as a good start and may be explain why this book and not
another. Could be in english or french. "Oracle for Dummies" isn't
quite what I want...

Kind regards.

* David

[Mark D Powell]

Re: NEWBIE looking for DBA documentation

dvh97@hotmail.c om (Le Dave) wrote in message news:<8c07d8b.0 404160607.31c86 180@posting.goo gle.com>...

Hi,
>
I play with Oracle server (7/8/9) on WinNT/2000/XP for almost 3 years
now. If I could help my self googling and digging newsgroups, I'd like
to structure a bit all the fragments of my knowledge and become a true
Oracle DBA.
>
So, appart from the nice Oracle books, could you point me some nice
books as a good start and may be explain why this book and not
another. Could be in english or french. "Oracle for Dummies" isn't
quite what I want...
>
Kind regards.
>
* David

By "nice Oracle books" do you mean the manuals or the Oracle Presss
series of books?

The Concepts and DBA Administration Manuals are excellent references
but for third party books I still like Practical Oracle 8i by Jonathan
Lewis. Most of the book is still true even with 10g. The book goes
into depth on most of the basic features of Oracle such index
structures, undo, redo. Plus the book has good coverage of
partitioned tables, objects, and LOBs.

I just recently purchased and have only skimmed Tom Kyte's new book.
It looks to be full of useful information related to writing effective
code. His previous book got very high reviews on the various Oracle
boards.

HTH -- Mark D Powell --

[AnaCDent]

Re: NEWBIE looking for DBA documentation

Le Dave wrote:

Hi,
>
I play with Oracle server (7/8/9) on WinNT/2000/XP for almost 3 years
now. If I could help my self googling and digging newsgroups, I'd like
to structure a bit all the fragments of my knowledge and become a true
Oracle DBA.
>
So, appart from the nice Oracle books, could you point me some nice
books as a good start and may be explain why this book and not
another. Could be in english or french. "Oracle for Dummies" isn't
quite what I want...
>
Kind regards.
>
* David

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