April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
23h 17m
English
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Books
A number of books on the market today address the needs of the DBA. We list here those titles we find the most helpful and accurate:
- Aronoff, Eyal, Kevin Loney, and Noorali Sonawalla. Advanced Oracle Tuning and Administration (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1997).
The most comprehensive discussion and explanation of the EXPLAIN PLAN facility available anywhere. No DBA should be without it.
- Feuerstein, Steven. Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Second Edition (O’Reilly & Associates, 1997).
Hands down, the definitive guide to PL/SQL. If you need information about PL/SQL, it’s in this book.
- Feuerstein, Steven, Charles Dye, and John Beresniewicz. Oracle Built-in Packages (O’Reilly & Associates, 1998).
The follow-up volume to Oracle PL/SQL Programming. Presents detailed information about the vast array of packages built into the Oracle database.
- Gurry, Mark, and Peter Corrigan. Oracle Performance Tuning, Second Edition, (O’Reilly & Associates, 1996).
A comprehensive and in-depth treatment of the entire range of topics related to Oracle tuning.
- Lomasky, Brian, and David Kreines.Oracle Scripts (O’Reilly & Associates, 1998).
A complete toolkit of scripts to automate many DBA tasks. Every DBA will find a virtual goldmine on the included CD-ROM.
- Loney, Kevin. Oracle8 DBA Handbook (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1997).
This latest edition of Kevin’s standard text for DBAs presents a lot of background material and explanation, and is well-suited for DBAs at any level.
- Niemiec, Richard, and Bradley Brown. Oracle DBA Tips and ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.