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Hi all,
I'm sure this has been asked about a million times, but I looked at the faqs I could find and it didn't mention it...
We finally decided we needed a real database so we went with Oracle 7 on SPARC Solaris (Workgroup Server).
Well, I have just about zero experience with Oracle. I installed it, changed the initial passwords, bought several Oracle books (from Oracle), and am wondering where to go now (other than read the books :).
My situation is this - I maintain our unix boxen/webservers/ftp servers/etc... so we are going to be using Oracle for a lot of backend/cgi stuff so I'm not interested in the GUI features (building Windose apps) of Oracle, but more interested in just getting it to do what I want, be stable, and secure, etc...
And of course it all needs to be implemented by yesterday :)
So... I've looked at various classes offered by Oracle, etc..., and although I'm sure they'd all be useful, I don't want to waste a lot of time.
I'm sure some of you are in this same boat... can you shed some light on some good books, classes you've taken?
Thanks!
-philip
Philip Hallstrom Sierra On-Line, Inc. philip.hallstrom@sierra.com http://www.sierra.com/Received on Thu Jun 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT