Sorry to hear you have to work with Oracle.
You might find this link very handy. It is all the Oracle manuals in HTML or PDF format. I have downloaded a few of them because the real manuals keep disappearing from my desk!!!
http://hojohn.photo.net/ora81/DOC/server.815/>Can anyone recommend a good Universal Thread-like Oracle site?
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>Also, I need books. I need to get up to speed quickly on doing some basic interactions between my app and Oracle. Any thoughts on what to read for the quickest overview? Any specific articles people are aware of for integrating with Oracle?
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>Thanks,
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>David