Re: Unfortunately, not quite that simple ...

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 05:47:18 GMT, "David A. Levy" <david.a.levy_at_rogers.com> wrote:

>Steve,
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>Beyond allowing you to practice your SQL, Personal Oracle won't teach you
>all that much about Oracle. Sounds silly I know, but the Personal Oracle
>architecture is significantly different to the Oracle Server architecture.
>Administration, capabilities, performance issues etc are different. A lot of
>the powerful tools don't work with the Personal version. Personal Oracle is
>primarily useful as a *very* surface introduction to Oracle and to allow
>client software developers to test their programs without the overhead of a
>full Oracle installation (and allowing them to use Win95/Win98 as their
>development platform).
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>Therefore, after learning SQL and relational concepts I think you will need
>to discard the Personal Oracle in favor of the real thing - if you hope to
>make much more progress. There are of course a plethora of good books on
>Oracle. Most of the Oracle Press books are fairly good; the O'Reilly books
>are excellent, and if you want to get certified check out the Exam Cram and
>Sybex books as well.
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>Good luck, and welcome to the world of Oracle!
>David.
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You must be confusing Oracle Lite with Personal Oracle. If you're not, I'm not sure about your knowledge of Personal Oracle. I couldn't disagree with you more. This is just NOT true!!!!!!

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 05:40:33 CST