Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

Hi Vladan,

    I wouldn't worry about not having a later version of Oracle. 7.1.5, while not leading edge, will enable you to gain experience with all of the basics and many of the advanced features that you will find in the latest Oracle releases.

    From the perspective of the developer there is very little difference between Linux and Unix. There are several good books on Linux. the problem is that cover many different topics ranging from writing kernel code to writing simple "C" programs to using the various window managers to .... When I go looking for computer books I tend to use the publisher rather than the author or price as primary criteria. For example, I have found that any book published by O'Reilly and Associates is usually the best available on the subject (I expect to get flamed for this -- but that is MY experience). Check out the university library and you should be able to find some books, authors, and publishers that you find useful.

    Incidentally, although it is none of my damned business I would like to pass on some advice my father gave me when I started at the local university. He told me that if, after four years, the only thing I learned at the University was how to solve problems and how to find out the answers to my questions he would feel that money spent on my education would be money well spent.

After all, as you point out, at the university the versions of the software that you get to use are far from current and I suspect the equipment you will be using is even more out of date.

regards

Jerry Gitomer

radova1_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <7ivk2f$sat$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Gentlemen, I see that You are all very knowledgable and I hope You dont'
>mind if I ask You few questions regarding Oracle and Linux. It is
>just that they don't teach me a damn thing at this University and I
>hope You can tell me how to go about learning Oracle. I have user
>provileges for 7.1.5 version( which is pretty old, huh ?). I have done
>few things with sql and pl/sql. Also if anuone would recomend good
>Linux book or maybe if there is such that makes parallel between Linux
>and Unix.
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>Any Advice is appreciated.
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>Vladan from Windsor
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>In article <374c3e68.283392_at_news.euronet.nl>,
> bas_at_datadesign.nl (Bas Scheffers) wrote:
>> On 25 May 1999 22:52:23 GMT, sweh_at_mpn.com (Stephen Harris) wrote:
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>> >and HP is DB/Finance). But bash _is_ deficient when compared to ksh
>> >IMHO :-)
>> I'll check it out!
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>> >For experimentation and learning of Oracle, Oracle on Linux i386 is
>pretty
>> >good. And Linux PC's are cheap! But I wouldn't trust Linux with my
>> >financials data, despite liking it very very much.
>> Rather Linux than NT ;-) but yes, I wouldn't trust it with that kind
>> of data, yet. It's more a fact of the applications to mature, all
>> RDBMSs are still in their first release and no one has an actual data
>> of how it will restore after 2 years in production, 100 gig's worth of
>> transaction logs, and the drives go up in flames. I do trust the OS
>> itself, but also there is still a lot of change going on, not the
>> backward compatibility you excpect for the commercial alternatives,
>> especialy when it comes to glibc. The fact that Sybase runs smoothly
>> on a glibc2.1 machine makes me thing they simply linked it staticly.
>> It's good to be a Linux fan, but you have to stay realistic. But in
>> the end, what this discussion started about: It's a hell of a way to
>> learn Unix.
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>> >Once you spec a PC to the stability
>> >requirements of a HP K class or a E3000 (mirroring, redundance CPUs
>etc)
>> >the machines get expensive.
>> And in the end it'll never get as reliable, harware speaking.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Bas.
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Received on Thu Jun 03 1999 - 11:59:57 CDT