Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: Learning Personal Oracle8i

Re: Learning Personal Oracle8i

From: damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:26:26 GMT
Message-ID: <3C7BD351.AA5B5E04@ci.seattle.wa.us>


Did you build the default database? Can you log on as scott/tiger?

If so ... forget DBA skills and work with the tables provided learning basic DDL and DML.

Are there any colleges in your area that teach Oracle?

Daniel Morgan

LowJay wrote:

> I am recently laid off and I thought I would at least learn the concepts behind
> Oracle8i while I had the time. I know SQL and used it often in my last job.
> I downloaded Personal Oracle and installed it and then I bought Oracle8i DBA
> Handbook to try to get a handle on it, but the book does not seem to be written
> for Personal Oracle8i. It seems to be written for the Enterprise Edition. I
> also went and bought Oracle8i for dummies and now I feel like a dummy.
>
> I am more of a developer than I am an administrator and I am looking for a way
> to learn Oracle to at least a solid, BASIC level. I would like to be able to
> write a vbscript to access a database or use PERL to access Oracle.
>
> What resources are available to help me with this?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
Received on Tue Feb 26 2002 - 12:26:26 CST

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US