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Once you have chosen all the books that you wish to buy, click on the shopping basket icon at the top of any of the pop-up detail screens.  Check the contents of your basket, then click on the "proceed to checkout" button.  That's all there is to it.

The books will usually be with you within a few days.  There is a small postage charge, so you may want to buy several books at once, perhaps between a few colleagues, as this will work out to be even better value.

Mastering Oracle Power Objects by Rick Greenwald, Robert E. Hoskin
click for details	Customer comment: Finally, a handbook that offers sage advice and realistic strategies for overcoming some of the common client/server glitches that crop up during application development. It is not the normal overloaded, technical tome, that you later call a 'reference' as it collects dust on the shelf. This is the 'guide' you should use to increase your OPO skills, and assist fellow developers.

Oracle 8 Data Warehousing by Gary Dodge, Tim Gorman
click for details	Customer comment: Simply put, this book is excellent! The authors take you through all major aspects of data warehousing. There knowledge of Oracle and warehousing in general shines through in every chapter. Combined with an excellent - and sometimes humorous - writing style this ranks as one of the top books in my technical reference library.

Oracle DBA Handbook 7.3 by Kevin Loney

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Customer comment: This book is a good read. It covers lots of practical stuff for the fledgeling and experienced Oracle 7x/6 DBA. Everything for managing objects, indexes and rollbacks to sql*net. I've found that it's best read along with the experience of an Oracle Education course and manuals. There's some stuff on creating a monitoring database which is a bit daunting for a new DBA. Overall, a good choice, especially if you are the only DBA in the company and have nowhere to refer for advice on your work.

Oracle PL/SQL Programming by Scott Urman
click for details	Customer comment: This is by far the most complete and best book in the market. if you are serious about learning PL/SQL then this is the book. Just go through the book and you can call yourself a good PL/SQL programmer.

Advanced Oracle Tuning and Administration by Eyal Aronoff, et al
click for details	Customer comment: This book contains a chapter that explains every EXPLAIN PLAN operation, plus other chapters with extensive tuning tips. The final four chapters of the book are dedicated to helping you prepare for the Oracle DBA Certification Exam; the official bulletin and practice test are included. Excerpts from the book have appeared in Oracle Magazine and Database Programming & Design.

Developing Oracle Forms Applications by Albert Lulushi

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Customer comment: Oracle Forms is a tool used to create sophisticated client/server applications for Oracle databases. This work describes how to use all of the tools, available to the Forms programmer in the latest release of Forms, version 4.5, including the Forms Desgner, Object Navigator and Layout Editor. All of the methods and objects available to the Forms programmer are outlined. The book also covers the use of PL/SQL, Oracle's unified programming language, in Forms applications, and explains how to apply object-oriented programming practices to Forms development, including inheritance, reusability, encapsulation and polymorphism. The accompanying diskette contains all sample Forms applications used in the book.

Developing Personal Oracle 7 for Windows 95 Applications by David Lockman

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Customer comment: A well organized and written book. Covers a lot of SQL queries and PL/SQL. All possible Personal Oracle7 features are covered for the beginner who is working on his own PC. The appendices for using Oracle with various kinds of front end tools could have been lengthier. Good book to have handy if you need reference for Oracle features,complicated queries, stored procedures and database triggers.

Oracle 7 for Dummies by Carol McCullough

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Customer comment: Humor (though a tad silly), short sections, tips, and real software (trial) combine to make the book easy to read and helpful for getting started. In fact, since the software includes a library of electronic books for learning more advanced Oracle, a person would never need to buy another book on the subject--a tremendous savings of money in both the short and long run. I recommend it: "Personal Oracle 7" looks good on my resume.

Oracle 7.3 Developer's Guide by Lave Singh, Kelly Leigh
click for details	Customer comment: Great book. I will be using it for quite some time.

Oracle: A Beginner's Guide by Michael Abbey, Michael J. Corey
click for details	Customer comment: Organized in a way uncharactaristically logical for technical documentation, this book is great as a first-time user handbook as well as a reference for those who can't memorize every element of SQL, etc. You will find the information you need quickly and with little aggrivation due to its consistant layout and excellent index.

Oracle and Unix Performance Tuning by Ahmed Alomari

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Customer comment: After hearing the author speak at Oracle Open World in 1997, I bought his book. There are alot of details covered in his book that the oracle documentation specific to the Unix platform doesn't address. The book assumes a working knowlege of both Oracle and Unix. I would recommend it for System Administators who support systems that run Oracle and DBA's who need more performance tips for their platform.

Oracle Backup & Recovery Handbook, 7.3 Edition by Rama Velpuri

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Customer comment: This is an excellent book! The author worked for years in the "down database pit" at Oracle tech support and has seen just about every kind of database problem requiring recovery. In this book, he does an great job of sharing his experiences on what causes problems and how to fix them. The book includes a review of the technologies involved and describes the mechanics of what goes on inside the black box that is the database. When a database gets hosed up really badly, this insight is invaluable. On the proactive side,it includes backup programs for both UNIX and VMS servers and many case studies of real life recoveries. If you're a DBA in deep doo doo due to a dead database, reach for this book before updating your resume.

Oracle Design by Dave Ensor, Ian Stevenson

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Customer comment: With this book, the authors help bring focus to the physical design phase. Practical advice can be found that will apply to most RDBMS implementations, and the Oracle-specific topics are "dead on". Though this book covers Oracle v7, their companion "Oracle8 Design Tips" fills the gaps nicely. In my teaching and consulting practice, this book has helped quite a lot. I rarely leave home without it.

Oracle Performance Tuning by Mark Gurry, Peter Corrigan

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Customer comment: Performance tuning is crucial in any modern relational database management system. The first edition covered the tuning of system parameters; the use of strategies like indexing and denormalization; performance issues for SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL Forms; and many diagnostic and tuning tools. This edition is a revision of the original book, adding material on Oracle 7.3 and many Oracle 8 features. It explores Oracle capabilities like parallel server, parallel query and distributed database. The book comes with a disk containing many programs and scripts that you can put to work immediately at your own site.

Teach Yourself Oracle 8 Database Development in 21 Days by David Lockman

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Customer comment: Books on Oracle tend to assume you already have a PhD in ‘Oracleese’, this book does not. It gives you a good overview of all the Oracle products. Do not expect a lot of detail. Examples show you the very basics of ‘here’s how to get a report started" or "here’s a very basic pie chart" Which is great since Oracle’s Design tools are not intuitive and can be frustrating and intimidating to the new user even if your familiar with other report or graphing tools. This book is great for you if you just want to get your feet wet, with out a lot of frustration, and then play on your own. I do recommend it for the new oracle developer.

Mastering Oracle Power Objects by Rick Greenwald, Robert E. Hoskin

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Customer comment: This is the ONLY ORACLE8 book that takes a very in-depth look at tuning individual SQL statements. Books abound on tuning the Oracle Database, but the poor Developers and End Users are forgotten. Using a 1 million row table, I compared and contrasted many types of queries. The comparisons use the ACTUAL elapsed times - instead of the infamous "LONG TIME" or "SHORT TIME"- Explain Plan COSTs, and the output produced by TKPROF. My goal in writing this book is to help ALL Oracle DBA's, Developers, and End Users write more efficient and MUCH FASTER running SQL statements. I will be presenting some of the information from this book at Oracle's OpenWorld 1998 convention. The presentation is entitled, "As Good As It Gets: Comparing ORACLE8 Partitions To ORACLE7"

Mastering Oracle Power Objects by Rick Greenwald, Robert E. Hoskin
click for details	Customer comment: Many books have been written about the Oracle database, but this one is special because it shows you how to perform tasks the NT way using the GUIs and Enterprise Manager.