REPOST: Re: Newbie: Installed Oracle, what now?

Is this something like 'how to annoy newsgroups'? ...and why all the effort (Sybrand) to explain howz en whyz...???

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> schreef in bericht news:tjip2uk9h5vqp65ue6sf8n4strn68aefnt_at_4ax.com...
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:12:10 +0100, Colin Hoffmann
> <colin_at_schluesselgaessli.ch> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >I installed Oracle 8i on my Sun. But i'm kinda stuck now ... is there a
> >commandline Interface and/or a graphical tool to administer it? So far, I
> >haven't found anything :-( Hints, anyone?
> >
> >Also, what's a good way to learn about Oracle? I already did a great deal
> >of developing using SQL (in MySQL), but i wonder about Oracles
specialties.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >greetings from Switzerland
> >Colin
>
> The commandline interface is called sqlplus. I guess you never read
> the Getting Started Manual, did you? Please do so
> The graphical tool to administer it is called Oracle Enterprise
> Manager. It runs on either Sun or NT
>
> There are some obvious recommendations
> - you should forget about anything your learned in MySQL. The way of
> thinking in sqlserver, mysql and other products is completely
> different from Oracle, the other products use stored procedures for
> about everything, Oracle doesn't
> - People exposed to other database products have a habit of not
> reading any Oracle Manuals. You should at least read the getting
> started manual, and the Oracle Concepts manual
> - No one should be without Oracle 8i the complete reference, and the
> Oracle 8i DBA handbook, both written by Kevin Loney and published by
> Oracle Press. The main disadvantage of those books is you'll need a
> cart to transport them, but at least Oracle the Complete Reference
> ships with a CD Rom
> - Of course there is the demo schema, usually known as the scott/tiger
> database (username scott password tiger) which demonstrates the main
> features of Oracle SQL (It is a very smart schema). The schema can be
> found in $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/admin/demobld.sql
>
> Hth
>
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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