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Dear Software
What a funny name you have, I bet it causes lots of fun at parties.
Your question is actually a very good one, as there are several hundreds of sites of hints and tips, and I believe in excess of 20,000 pages of documentation which can all be rather intimidating. Then there are the plethora of books available.
Fortunately the situation has got better in the last couple of years or so.
First Oracle Corp have rewritten a significant amount of the documentation with their latest version of the DBMS and included in this is a rather excellent document called the 2 day dba, You can find this (and the rest of the docs) at http://otn.oracle.com - which requires free subscription but ought to be a weekly visit. I would start with this document - but when you have finished it and if you have an earlier version of the software (I'd suggest that was sensible for production use) then after you have read the 2 day dba there is a document for each of the earlier versions called the Oracle Concepts Guide - that is on otn as well.
Next there are a number of good books around
Peter has already mentioned dba 101, If you are looking at this from a developers perspective I'd highly recommend Tom Kyte's Expert One-on-One Oracle which is available from Apress the opening chapters especially deal with how Oracle differs from other RDBMS systems out there. .
The last site to note is the faq site that appears at the bottom of this mail, since it hosts a whole bunch of links to Oracle related questions.
Good luck
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
On Wed, 26 May 2004 11:04:44 +0200, Software Software
<softwares_at_aamines.co.zw> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> I'm migrating my database server from M$ $QL to Oracle and I have searhed
> practically the whole day on Oracle beginners notes to no avail. May you
> please direct me on any useful sites about Oracle.
> And also sites about SQL*Plus.
> TIA
> Regards
> Software
>
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