Recommended Books

I'm often asked to recommend books on Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle, and Unix/Linux by my clients. Here are some of my favorites.  (The titles link to Amazon).

Oracle E-Business Suite

Phelps, Elke. Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide. Coqui Tech & Press, 2010.

Matthews, Barbara, John Stouffer, Randy Geifer, Karen Brownfield, Jeff Holt, James Morrow, Bruno Coon, Tim Sharpe, and Faun deHenry. Installing, Upgrading, and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Release 11.5.10+. Lulu Press, 2011.

Brownfield, Karen and Susan Behn. The ABCs of Workflow for E-Business Suite 11i and Release 12. Lulu Press, 2011

General Oracle Topics

Millsap, Cary V. Optimizing Oracle Performance. O'Reilly Media, 2003.

Dawes, Chip. Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference. O'Reilly Media, 2007.

Gennick, Jonathan. Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference. O'Reilly Media, 2004.

General Unix/Linux Topics

Adelstein, Tom and Bill Lubanovic.  Linux System Administration.  O'Reilly Media, 2007.

Barrett, Daniel J.  Linux Pocket Guide.  O'Reilly Media, 2004.

Kuhn, Darl, Charles Kim, and Bernard Lopuz.  Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs.  APress, 2009.

Mui, Linda.  What You Need to Know When You Can't Find Your UNIX System Administrator.   O'Reilly Media, 1995.

Nemeth, Evi, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, and Ben Whaley.  Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fourth Edition.  Prentice Hall, 2010.

Newham, Cameron.  Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition.  O'Reilly Media, 2005.

Peek, Jerry, Grace Todino, and John Strang.  Learning the Unix Operating System.  Fifth Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2001.

Robbins, Arnold and Bill Rosenblatt.  Learning the Korn Shell, Second Edition.  O'Reilly Media, 2002.

Robbins, Arnold, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb.  Learning the vi and vim Editors, Seventh Edition.  O'Reilly Media, 2008.

Robbins, Arnold.  bash Pocket Reference.  O'Reilly Media, 2010