Looking for a good book

[campbere]

I am looking for a good book on Oracle. I prefer more of a Pl/SQL concentration compared to administration concentration.

Any recommendations?

 

[vsundar2]

Hi

The "Oracle8 PL/SQL programming" by Scott Urman from Oracle Press is a good book.

Also the Oracle Press site "

http://www.osborne.com/oracle/

" has a lot of sample code to look at.

Thanks
Vasu.

 

[LokiDba]

Hi

A really good book for PL/SQL programming is "Oracle PL/SQL Programming" by Steven Feuerstein, ISBN 1-56592-335-9, Publisher O'Reilly.

I highly recommend this because it covers all areas of PL/SQL (upto and including packages) with best practise approches a good buy.

If you want to go into packages in greater details (i.e. the production of a library of packages and how to apply them to specific situations) you could look at "Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages" By Steven Feuerstein. If your interested try and get a look at the book first because it details a set of Packages created by Feuerstein, called PL/Vision.

Hope of soon use

LokiDBA


LokiDBA

 

[MikeJones]

Firstly I'd like to agree with LokiDBA, Steven Feuerstein's O'Reilly series is excellent, I don't know of anyone who has bought them and been disapointed (Although I suppose there can always be a first). The other thing I would say is that if your after a book on tuning, which at the end of the day is something we all end up doing, Guy Harrisons book Oracle High Performance Tuning is, IMHO, the only book worth buying.