{"id":792,"date":"2006-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2006-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"your-top-three-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/your-top-three-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Top Three books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After so many people voting for their favourites, I thought I should summarise the results. Don&#8217;t expect this to be deadly accurate &#8211; so no fighting amongst yourselves, authors &#128521; I&#8217;ve also kept things shorter by excluding most single votes in the results and discounting people&#8217;s 4th, 5th and 6th votes. However, your recommendations are all included in the blog comments anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, it&#8217;s just a bit of fun so I have no intention of getting caught up in arguments about &#8216;the rules&#8217; or my arithmetic, but it should be useful for the user group. Thanks again<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Top books<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1861004826\/sr=8-3\/qid=1146863665\/ref=pd_bbs_3\/103-5072967-8355834?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Expert One-on-One<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1590595300\/sr=8-1\/qid=1146863665\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-5072967-8355834?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Expert Oracle Database Architecture<\/a> (the sequel?) &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">21<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1590596366\/qid=1146863852\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">19<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/059600527X\/qid=1146863899\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Optimizing Oracle Performance<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">16<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0072230657\/qid=1146863980\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Effective Oracle by Design<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">12<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/007222729X\/qid=1146863899\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Oracle Wait Interface<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">5<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0596009771\/qid=1146864021\/sr=2-3\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Oracle PL\/SQL Programming<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">5<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0072226625\/qid=1146864078\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Oracle 9i RMAN Backup and Recovery<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">4<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/156592598X\/qid=1146864127\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Oracle 8i Internal Services<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">3<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0201715848\/qid=1146864156\/sr=2-2\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Practical Oracle 8i<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">3<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1590593871\/qid=1146863899\/sr=2-3\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Tales of the Oak Table<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">3<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1590594487\/qid=1146864189\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-5072967-8355834?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Authors<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tom Kyte &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">32<\/span><br \/>Jonathan Lewis &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">22<\/span><br \/>Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">16<\/span><br \/>Steven Feuerstein &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">5<\/span><br \/>Robert Freeman &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">5<\/span><br \/>Steve Adams &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">3<\/span><br \/>Lex de Haan &#8211; <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">2<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After so many people voting for their favourites, I thought I should summarise the results. Don&#8217;t expect this to be deadly accurate &#8211; so no fighting amongst yourselves, authors &#128521; I&#8217;ve also kept things shorter by excluding most single votes in the results and discounting people&#8217;s 4th, 5th and 6th votes. However, your recommendations are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/your-top-three-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Top Three books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1676,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/vote-peter-robson\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":0},"title":"Vote Peter Robson!","date":"March 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The UKOUG Council elections are in progress and I think User Groups are a critical part of the community. 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