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The best books for Oracle DBAs and developers - 10g update
 
 



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Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux: Installation, Administration, and Performance (Expert's Voice in ...
Julian Dyke, Steve Shaw

Apress, 2006

The Magnum Opus on Oracle RAC

+ It's all in the details
+ Great choice
+ Comprehensive, detailed, well organized and easy to understand
+ Excellent command level RAC material.
  
  











  



  
Effective Oracle by Design (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Thomas Kyte

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003

If only all Oracle books were this good

+ Doesn't get any better....
+ Fabulous
+ Benchmark it..
+ Well-written and packed with useful information
  
  











  



  
Expert Oracle Database 10g Administration (Expert's Voice)
Sam R. Alapati

Apress, 2005

read one month before taking the class, at lease

+ Exellent guide for beginners.
+ Probably the Best book on Oracle DBA..
+ What a book
  
  











  



  
Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas (Prentice Hall PTR Oracle Series)
Bert Scalzo

Prentice Hall PTR, 2003

A Recipe for Success

+ Required reading
+ Very objective and driven book for Oracle DWH
+ Practical Implementation Details
  
  











  



  
Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Kevin Loney

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2004

Perfect

+ Not for a newbie, But great book for Professionals
+ Good for the basics
+ Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference
+ Object-relational features coverage
  
  











  



  
Oracle 10g Data Warehousing
Lilian Hobbs, Susan Hillson, ...

Digital Press, 2004

Well I am Happy

+ Excellent overview of Oracle 10g Data Warehousing
+ Very good overall coverage

Well I found this book extremely useful. Okay so you could wade thru the doc, but this book has everthing in one place with some easy to follow examples. It also encouraged me to take a look at using EM rather than typing everything in on the command line.
  
  











  



  
Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals (Expert's Voice in Oracle)
Jonathan Lewis

Apress, 2005

Invaluable Knowledge and Applicability

+ Great Book!
+ Invaluable Oracle Resource
+ Jonathan is a tease... but it's a great book!
  
  











  



  
Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery
Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002

Best book on market for RMAN and Backups

+ The bible of RMAN
+ Good Stuff, Piece of Art
+ You RMAD if you love RMAN
  
  











  



  
Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan

McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2004

Bye Bye Cache Hit Ratio

+ Oracle Wait interface
+ Excellent examples - easy to understand and use
+ Skillful Oracle book!
+ Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan are the Best Authors !
  
  











  



  
Expert One-on-One Oracle
Thomas Kyte

Apress, 2003

Best $12 I ever spent!!!

+ Fantasic
+ Detailed and well explained
+ Good stuff for all
+ The gold standard for Oracle DBAs and developers
  
  











  



  
Mastering Oracle PL/SQL: Practical Solutions
Connor McDonald, Chaim Katz, ...

Apress, 2004

By far, one of the best book on practical Pl/sql

+ Great Book
+ This is a real good book to master PL/SQL
+ One for the must have collection !
+ A good book, worth its price
  
  











  



  
Practical Oracle8i(TM): Building Efficient Databases
Jonathan Lewis

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000

read from cover-to-cover immediately after certification

+ Masterpiece
+ Excellent advance DBA/developer book for Oracle 8i
+ New ideas for design
+ read from cover-to-cover immediately after certification
  
  











  



  
Scaling Oracle8i(TM): Building Highly Scalable OLTP System Architectures
James Morle

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000

Excellent and error free book

+ Awesome Oracle knowledge!
+ Rare gem
+ Well versed book about oracle architecture
+ Excellent fundamental education on scaling OLTP systems
  
  











  



  
Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software
Karl Kopper

No Starch Press, 2005

very well conceived and written book!

+ The other cluster flavor
+ Great Explanations and Recipies
+ The perfect book for small clusters
  
  











  



  
Optimizing Oracle Performance
Cary Millsap, Jeffrey Holt

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003

Excellent performance book

+ Technically great, somewhat outdated, and very wordy
+ Method R: Optimizing Oracle Performance Using Extended SQL Trace Data
+ A real page turner
+ Superb book
  
  











  



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