Re: STUDY ORACLE

In article <01bc02e7$caaf0560$4cb113cc_at_sbenny>, Sylvie Benny <sbenny_at_total.net> writes
>I was offerred a contract which is for "C" language with "ORACLE"
>experience. Unfortunately, I don't have "ORACLE" experience.
>
>Before I loose a second contract I would like to know what I should look
>for to study "ORACLE".
>
>Books and Software, preferably something cheap to buy since I don't even
>know if another opportunity in this area will come by. Or do you know of a
>course on line?

Unless you are working in a very specialised area, you need to know about relational databases - everyone is using them.

As far as books are concerned, try looking at Oracle Press

(http://www.osborne.com/oracle/index.htm) who have a number of books covering various aspects of developing and managing Oracle systems. Some of these come with a CD containing 'Personal Oracle' (which runs under windows) and some of the development tools.

Personal Oracle is also available free from Oracle's 'Try and Buy' shop on their web site (http://www.oracle.com) Make sure you get the right version for your OS.

If you are a C programmer, you need to know about Pro*C (embedded SQL) and OCI (Oracle Call Interface) which are two different methods of making a C program talk to an Oracle database. Unfortunately, these are less well covered than Oracle's other tools in the books.

Although Oracle is by far the market leader, you should also consider Sybase (number 2 but possibly declining) and Informix (number 3 but comming up very fast). In fact, in the time it took to type that sentence Informix has become number 2.

-- 
Jim Smith