Oracle is well known as an excellent database management system, but it can seem complex and has a reputation for requiring extensive learning if you want to work with it. The books in this collection are all titles we can recommend if you need to work with Oracle. Some offer a general introduction, others concentrate on PL/SQL, Oracle's SQL dialect.

The team of I Programmer book reviewers read a lot of programming titles, and our programmer's bookshelf section provides a guide to those that we thought were among the best, with recommendations of the books you might find helpful at different stages in your personal development.

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Expert Oracle Database Architecture

Author: Thomas Kyte
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 750
ISBN: 978-1484274989

This is a readable, dense book that will teach you exactly how to develop applications for use with Oracle. We reviewed an earlier edition, but the title has recently been updated to cover the developments and new features up to Oracle Database 21c.

Tom Kyte, the main author, is well known in the database world as the author of a popular column called Ask Tom in Oracle Magazine. Giving the book the maximum five stars, Kay Ewbank said that the book is very dense, and the ideas are in many cases both subtle and complex. However, if you want to write an application that works really well on an Oracle database, or you want to take an existing application that’s crawling and make it acceptable, this book should be your bedtime reading.

Oracle Exadata Expert's Handbook  

Author: Tariq Farooq, Charles Kim, Nitin Vengurlekar, Sridhar Avantsa, Guy Harrison, Syed Jaffar Hussain 
Pages: 544
ISBN: 978-0321992604

If you need to understand and use the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, this book from some Oracle experts is a good reference, and we awarded it 4.5 stars.

The material in this book is well written by Oracle experts who are well known on the Oracle speaking circuit, and who have a number of well regarded books on various Oracle topics. This book starts off from the basics, and covers a wide variety of topics clearly. There are sample commands, queries, hints and tips, and advice on best practices. All in all, if you need to work with Exadata, it's a good read. 

Oracle Essentials

Authors: Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pages: 405
ISBN: 978-1449343033

This is the fifth edition of this popular title, updated to cover Oracle 12c. While this is obviously several versions back from the current 21c release, this is still a useful title if you need a high level grounding in the concepts and technologies that form the foundation of Oracle’s database server.

Awarding the book 4.5 stars, Kay Ewbank said that while this isn’t a book that will turn you into an Oracle expert, it does give a good overview of what you’ll need to learn about, and how the Oracle ecosystem fits together.

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