Good oracle book

[Nick Akabude]

Please can any body suggest to me any good oracle book to get started as a
beginner. However, I have been working with SQL Server 2000 for the past
three years and want to begin to learn Oracle PL/SQL - seen it is now
predominantly more requested

Thanks and God Bless

[Ana C. Dent]

Nick Akabude wrote: Please can any body suggest to me any good oracle book to get started as a beginner. However, I have been working with SQL Server 2000 for the past three years and want to begin to learn Oracle PL/SQL - seen it is now predominantly more requested Thanks and God Bless


http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.docindex?remark=homepage

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/toc.htm

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96624/toc.htm

[Daniel Morgan]

Nick Akabude wrote:
Please can any body suggest to me any good oracle book to get started as a beginner. However, I have been working with SQL Server 2000 for the past three years and want to begin to learn Oracle PL/SQL - seen it is now predominantly more requested Thanks and God Bless

The book is advanced for Oracle but invaluable since you are coming
from SQL Server. Purchase a copy of Tom Kyte's "Expert one-on-one
Oracle" and read the first three chapters and gain experience with
the examples until you "get" it.

Then put the book down and pick up with one of the basic Oracle Press
books and Tom's "Effective Oracle by Design".

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Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1088344342.168301@yasure>... Nick Akabude wrote: Please can any body suggest to me any good oracle book to get started as a beginner. However, I have been working with SQL Server 2000 for the past three years and want to begin to learn Oracle PL/SQL - seen it is now predominantly more requested Thanks and God Bless The book is advanced for Oracle but invaluable since you are coming from SQL Server. Purchase a copy of Tom Kyte's "Expert one-on-one Oracle" and read the first three chapters and gain experience with the examples until you "get" it. Then put the book down and pick up with one of the basic Oracle Press books and Tom's "Effective Oracle by Design".

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[Hans Forbrich]

Nick Akabude wrote:
Please can any body suggest to me any good oracle book to get started as a beginner. However, I have been working with SQL Server 2000 for the past three years and want to begin to learn Oracle PL/SQL - seen it is now predominantly more requested Thanks and God Bless

In my preferred order:

A) What is Oracle, really?

Oracle's Concepts manual
at http://ocs.oracle.com
O'Reilly's Oracle Essentials
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oressentials3

B) Oracle is not SQL Server, really! and
C) How to develop in Oracle

Expert One on One Oracle (by Kyte, Thomas)
at Amazon
Effective Oracle by Design (also by Kyte, Thomas)
at Amazon

C) How to develop in Oracle

Oracle's Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals
at http://ocs.oracle.com
Oracle's Application Developer's Guide - (the rest)
at http://ocs.oracle.com

D) Effective SQL for efficient apps

Master Oracle SQL
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0596006322

/Hans