Oracle DBA book?

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> I have a few programmers and sysadmins who need to learn some
>> Oracle DBA skills quickly. How to check on the capacity of a
>> datafile, adding a new one to a tablespace, user management,
>> backups and restores, that sort of thing. Does anyone here have
>> a book or two to recommend?
> 
> I'm not a fan of overly descriptive technical books. I just use the Oracle
> Referece, I think it is sams. I've never needed anything else.

While I've never looked at the O'Reilly Oracle books, every other 
O'Reilly book I've used has been excellent. If I had to start learning 
Oracle, I'd begin with O'Reilly's books.

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