The best Oracle books August 2009

F: These books i have uploaded to Freedrive.com for you to study. Ask your mom and aunt for login and password, or read my email treasure chest to you, or read the books in my portable harddisk.
W: We have bought the hard copy books from Amazon.
L: This books are available in singapore libraries, use the singapore library search engine in the internet

August 17, 2009
Programming is a spiritual practice like pottery or flute. Oracle is a living thing.

Best Oracle books

Head first SQL by Head First SQL by Lynn Beighley (F, L)

Easy Oracle SQL by John Garmany (W)
Easy Oracle PL/SQL programming by John Garmany (W)

Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples by Gavin JT Powell (F,L)
Oracle Performance Tuning for 10gR2 by Gavin JT Powell (F,L)
The art and science of Oracle Performance tuning (L)
Oracle SQL high performance tunign by Guy Harrison 
Oracle performance tuning 101 (W)
Oracle 11g for dummies (L)
Easy Oracle jumpstart by Rampant Press (W)


Supporting books

1. Linux for dummies (F, L)
2. C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie (F)
3. Networking for dummies (F,L)
4. Game programming books (L)

Head first SQL by Head First SQL by Lynn Beighley (F, L)
-start with this book first to get excited about Oracle

Easy Oracle SQL by John Garmany (W)
-Then get a bit deeper into SQL
Easy Oracle PL/SQL programming by John Garmany (W)
-Get your Oracle lab started
Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples by Gavin JT Powell (F,L)
-Some excellent diagrams explaining index much better than other books, long winded dont have to read all
Oracle Performance Tuning for 10gR2 by Gavin JT Powell (F,L)
-Some excellent examples, long winded dont have to read all
The art and science of Oracle Performance tuning (L)
-After reading sql tuning then only you can enjoy this book
Oracle performance tuning 101 (W)
-Convoluted prose but good analogies on hardware
Oracle 11g for dummies (L)
Easy Oracle jumpstart by Rampant Press (W)
-Probably the best Oracle book