Re: Where do you get Oracle ?

Wow, all that discussion about download speeds probably didn't help you that much, did it? I'm surprised--I tend to think of Oracle people as being a little less, well, base. boorish. childish.

Your other option is to go directly to the main Oracle site, click on "Store" and then click on trials. They will ship you a CD "pack" for one low price of $39.95 to cover shipping and handling. There is usually a different set for the database, "web stuff", and other developer tools. The configurations change from time to time, but for less than the price of most books, it's money well spent. Then you have a decent version to play with and try out some things.

The problem that you will run into is that only Personal Edition (don't mess with Oracle Lite--it's not the same thing) will run on Windows 98, and it is a little different in terms of architecture from the Server Edition. For learning SQL & PL/SQL, these differences will be trivial, but for administration they are significant. I personally prefer to run NT and not 98, but I hear reports from others that the Personal Edition runs fine on 98.

Best of Luck and welcome to the Oracle community. --Kelly Cox

p.s. try the IOUG-A web site at www.ioug.org for additional discussion groups and resources.

Jon Temple wrote:

> I want to learn Oracle, starting with PL/SQL. My company will be getting
> Oracle in a few months, but I want to study now. Have a book which looks
> pretty good, but I need Oracle and SQL* to do the labs.
>
> Can I get a CD(s) with this on it? Does The Personal Edition of Oracle have
> the SQL* tool?
>
> Saw a 400MG download on ORACLE.COM, too big for a download, any other ideas
> where I can get this to load on my home Win 98 computer?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jon
> temples_at_att.net
  Received on Fri Sep 29 2000 - 22:37:43 CDT