10 Books we would recommend

The best book on Oracle ever? Regardless, Tom Kyte's "expert one-on-one Oracle" remains one of the best sources to understand and learn how Oracle works. Sadly though the publishers of the regular edition Wrox Publishers went out of business, you can still buy the hardcover edition titled "Expert Oracle Signature Edition". This edition covers Oracle versions upto 8i, if you are interested in a more recent version look at the second entry in this list.

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The first of three volumes, this book is titled "Expert Oracle Database Architecture" and is published by Apress. This volume covers what Tom considers to be the most important of Oracle architecture features. As a bonus, you get a fully seachable pdf version of the Expert One-On-One book on a CD.

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Though the book was written keeping Oracle 8i in mind, this book should be compulsory reading for developers along with Tom Kyte's books.

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Another Tom Kyte book, this book is titled "Effective Oracle by Design" and published by Oracle Press. Compared to Tom's earlier one-on-one book, this book is slightly more conceptual in nature, and is focused more on designing Oracle systems the right way.

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Steven Feuerstein's best known book, now in its 4th edition still remains the book of choice for learning PL/SQL.

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David Knox's book on Oracle Security should be a real eye opener. Covering everything from Roles to encryption, this book should have a place on every developer's book shelf.

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Jonathan Lewis's second book. Titled "Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals", this book is as much a pleasure to read as his first book. Filled with test cases, this book is aimed at making you understand the internals of the CBO.

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"Optimizing Oracle Peformance" by Cary Milsap and Jeff Holt takes the magic out of tuning and turns into science. Based on Oracle's response time statistics, this book will shatter quite  a few myths you may have about tuning.

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A good data model can break or make a project. This book titled "Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners" by C.J.Date will help you understand the concepts behind the relational theory.

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