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Notes of a Junior on the Path to Oracle Mastery
On this blog I am writing about thoughts, solutions, failures and pitfalls on the path to Oracle Mastery. It’s still a long way to go. On this blog, the main focus is learning Oracle.

Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

Author: HP Fuchs | Category: Books & HowTo's

The book Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions, written by Tom Kyte, is an excellent introduction to Oracle architecture. It is not only a great book for developers, but for DBAs as well. Many a DBA might find a thing or two new to him. Tom Kyte doesn’t only walk trough Oracle features, but gives guidelines when to use them and - especially important - when not to use them.

Tom Kyte writes in a style which makes this book a page breaker, and everything is proven by examples. Table of contents can be found here, sample chapter here.

The book can be bought as a paperback for $49, or - like most APRESS books - as a PDF version for $25. I bought the PDF version. It has three advantages:

  1. It is half price
  2. It is searchable
  3. I can print a couple of pages and read them for example while shopping with family, no need to carry around heavy books.

I wish I had a similar book when I started using Oracle Database as a developer in 1999.

October 12th, 2006.

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