Anyone have a suggestion for a good book to buy for the 6i Developer Track? I know the Oracle Press Book covers the release2 version. But that is about to expire. So I would like to buy a book on 6i? Anyone know of a good study book?

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The entire Developer 6.0/Forms & Reports 6i "how-to" book selection is pretty weak compared to other applications. I've learned more dinking around in existing fmb's and mmb's than by reading anything.

It's not all about forms development, either. Creating fairly sophisticated forms isn't too hard once you understand where everything comes from, how it gets changed, and so on. As far as Reports are concerned, forget it. You pretty much have to learn that on your own.

You need a good handle on PL/SQL before getting into forms development. Having to learn the difference between functions and procedures while learning forms properites will hinder the learning process.

Good PL/SQL books include O'Reilly's "Oracle PL/SQL," and Osborne's Oracle PL/SQL & Advanced PL/SQL books (these are sponsored by Oracle Corp.).

Decent Forms books: Prentice Hall's Oracle Forms by Motivala (you can also get a 4-hr CD-ROM video with this) to get started, then Oracle Forms Developer Handbook by Lulushi. You can skip Oracle's books on these.

You should also look over Form Builder Reference, vols I and II (you can get these from OTN for free, about 700 pages each in pdf format). These come with tons of code examples and explanation of what goes where when.

If it were easy, then everyone would be doing this.

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