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!KEEP VOTING PEOPLE!
A brief intro for newcomers
Who are these people in the polls
Team A
1.
Tom Kyte
2.Jonathan Lewis
3. Cary Millsap
Team B
1.Donald Burleson and Mike Ault
Well I voted on None of these.
Why??
Because I feel that these books are good for the beginners in Oracle or those DBAs who are switching to Oracle from other.
But for those people who are at the intermediate to expert level,the best book, according to me, is the Oracle Reference Manual and of course there are good forums like this one.
Tell us honestly, Mr Hanky what did you do with those.I have a very awkward feeling with that statement:D :DQuote:
I thought I had some books by Mike Ault but I do not see any on my shelf.
so you are saying JL's book which is very technical and goes to a very deep level is only worth for beginners?
Cary Millsap's book is definitely not for beginners. Quite hard to read btw
Yes, but very much worth the effort.Quote:
Originally posted by pando
Cary Millsap's book is definitely not for beginners. Quite hard to read btw
P.S. you DON'T need any calculus to understand it ;)
ahh...
Ok. whenever you know something but you have doubt, you consult the oracle reference(at least I do it)
and
whenver you don't know something, u read books to gain knowledge on that topic.So you are a beginner ,atleast, on that topic.
Hmm simply_dba,
I think that is not really a correct statement. The fact that only 24 people have chosen for TK/JL/CM book is because they are reasonably sound oracle professionals, had it been a beginners book then this poll would have seen a lot of users choosing for Burleson books as well.
A reference book will not teach you anything either.It just helps you remember what you forgot or can't remember at that point in time.
But anyways thanks for voting.
Anyways funny that you said that after my post, which tried to introduce Beginners/Newcomers to T Kyte , J Lewis etc. I thought that they were the ones who needed to know about these 'talented professional' authors.(some of them atleast ;))
But you are misinterpreting my post.Who says a oracle expert don't have to learn a new thing?Quote:
Originally posted by Tarry
Hmm simply_dba,
I think that is not really a correct statement. The fact that only 24 people have chosen for TK/JL/CM book is because they are reasonably sound oracle professionals, had it been a beginners book then this poll would have seen a lot of users choosing for Burleson books as well.
A reference book will not teach you anything either.It just helps you remember what you forgot or can't remember at that point in time.
But anyways thanks for voting.
Tom himself says that every day he learns something new in oracle.
So an oracle expert can also be a beginner in some sense:cool: