Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Book Adverts

I'm very pleased to announce two Oracle related books I have co-authored are to be published shortly by Apress.


The first book is entitled Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table and it will be officially published in December. There are 9 chapters currently available for eBook download via the Apress Alpha program. The Alpha program allows you to purchase (at a substantial discount from the full publish price) an unedited, unfinished pre-release format. The full book isn't available yet, but when it becomes available, you will be able to download the full eBook at no additional cost. It's a good option if you want to get a jump on what's to come! I wrote the chapter on Managing SQL Performance. I'm really excited about the book and am very proud to be among the group of Oak Table folks who are co-authoring it together.

Not far behind the Oak Table book will be Beginning Oracle SQL. The book is a revision of the classic Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus by Lex de Haan originally published in 2004. Again, I was fortunate to be able to work with a fantastic group of co-authors to revise Lex's work to include many of Oracle's latest developments to the SQL query language. I knew Lex for only a very short time before his passing in 2006 but I knew him to be a brilliant and wonderful man and I'm very honored to be able to contribute to revising his original work.

These books represent my first time as a published author. I've written many whitepapers and articles for various Oracle user group periodicals and such in the past but never attempted the process of writing a book. After having this experience, I'm grateful that my first time was as a co-author. It's comforting to know there are other folks out there sweating the process with you!

The folks at Apress have been awesome and I hope that my first experience as an author won't be my last!

4 comments:

Laurent Schneider said...

Congrats Karen!!!

Asif Momen said...

Congrats !!!

I would like to start myself with "Expert Oracle Practices" and later dive into "Beginning Oracle SQL".

Unknown said...

Hello, Karen!
I can't find book's examples for "Beginning Oracle SQL".
on the Apress.com website.
Can you help me?
Thank you in advance.

Karen said...

Sergey,

The source code for the book was inadvertently left off the web site. That should be corrected by the end of this week (2/12/2010).

Thanks!