{"id":794,"date":"2006-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2006-05-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:00:00","slug":"request-what-are-your-top-three-oracle-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/request-what-are-your-top-three-oracle-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Request &#8211; What are your top three Oracle books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Robson has asked me to help him out with something via my blog. Our user group is looking at the possibility of having a books section on their website. To help them choose which books to include, Peter was interested to find what readers of this blog would list as their top three Oracle-related books. I can only think of two rules<\/p>\n<p>1) You&#8217;re not allowed to nominate your own books (actually, that was Peter&#8217;s rule)<br \/>2) You should try to avoid out of print books because they&#8217;re going to be for sale.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping my fingers crossed that I get as many comments as possible here, to make the survey as representative as possible so, please, even if I&#8217;ve insulted you at some point in the past ;-), speak up now! Oh, and you don&#8217;t neccessarily have to justify your choices if you don&#8217;t want to &#8211; a simple 1, 2, 3 will do.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Doug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Robson has asked me to help him out with something via my blog. Our user group is looking at the possibility of having a books section on their website. To help them choose which books to include, Peter was interested to find what readers of this blog would list as their top three Oracle-related&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/03\/request-what-are-your-top-three-oracle-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Request &#8211; What are your top three Oracle 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-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1374,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/08\/book-review-oracle-11g-new-features\/","url_meta":{"origin":794,"position":0},"title":"Book Review &#8211; Oracle 11g New Features","date":"January 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember I said I wouldn't do this any more, but last October, someone from Oracle Press contacted me by email because they'd noticed the following words on my website. \"However, those aspects are well dealt with in Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning by\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1509,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/a-top-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":794,"position":1},"title":"A TOP Book","date":"July 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I have always been and probably always will be poor at coming up with snappy, punning titles for blog posts, so it's the best I can do.I bought Troubleshooting Oracle Performance by Christian Antognini a while ago (when it was first published, I think) but, as seems to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 8 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1049,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/historical-perspective-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":794,"position":2},"title":"Historical Perspective (Part 1)","date":"August 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As mentioned in a few blog comments in the past, it's not the greatest idea to advertise on the web that you're going on holiday (or vacation if you prefer), given the easy availability of home addresses online. 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