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Which book would your recommend for:
Exam #1Z0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL

Is it better to take:
Exam #1Z0-001 Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL

If yes, which book do you recommend?
(I work with java and j2ee)

thanks!
 
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You should consider the ILT materials offered by Oracle University. All questions can be found from that materials.

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Which book would your recommend for:
Exam #1Z0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL

You should look at www.sybex.com. Follow the links certification & Oracle 9i. They have an excellent book to pass this exam.
 
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All questions can be found from that materials.



This is the saddest part of Oracle Certifications. If you just go through these materials, you can be zero to OCP in one week. If you really want to learn Oracle and pass OCP exams learn from Oracle Documentation and Certification books. Oracle is an ocean, yet you rarely find guys failing OCP exams.

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This is the saddest part of Oracle Certifications. If you just go through these materials, you can be zero to OCP in one week. If you really want to learn Oracle and pass OCP exams learn from Oracle Documentation and Certification books. Oracle is an ocean, yet you rarely find guys failing OCP exams.


That's why Oracle now enforce candidates to attend their training. She wants to help candidates to pass the exam through their training materials, while to make sure that those candidates can have enough hand-on experiences.

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Originally posted by Nicholas Cheung:

That's why Oracle now enforce candidates to attend their training. She wants to help candidates to pass the exam through their training materials, while to make sure that those candidates can have enough hand-on experiences.

Nick



I feel it's some kinda marketing issue for Oracle both to earn from training and from exam...
 
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But this only affects the new comers.

And, if we dont attend the training, we cannot get the ILT materials.

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Hey Nicholas,

What is ILT material, can we get it without attending the training.

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What is ILT material


ILT stands for Instructor Led Training. The materials are distributed when you are in the Oracle class.


can we get it without attending the training.


Nope.

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can we get it without attending the training.



If you have a friend who is an Oracle DBA, chances are that these materials are gathering dust in his shelves. Many companies send DBAs to these courses to consume their training budgets and make their DBAs *feel good*. No self-respecting DBA would keep them in his table for obvious reasons - they are of little value for a working DBA. I had a chance to look at them and was horrified. It seemed that somebody attended the course and then prepared OCP exam questions.

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No self-respecting DBA would keep them in his table for obvious reasons - they are of little value for a working DBA


Exams are conceptual, and thus, obvious that the courses are mainly served for exam purposes.

On the other hand, DBAs may not pass the OCP exams even they have several years of experiences, because the mismatched expectation.

That's why Oracle finally comes up with OCM, which required hand-on tests.

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