Re: Motivated to Learn Oracle - 7 Year IS/IT Professional

First, get a sandbox database you can play in. Then, look at: technet.oracle.com

www.oracle.com
www.orafaq.com
www.tusc.com
www.robonerd.com 

These will lead you to other sites as well.

Mike Ault
CEO ROBO Books International
www.robonerd.com
Dshazzarin <dshazzarin_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<Xns925F9EE112899dshazzarinyahoocom_at_216.168.3.40>...
> Greetings All,
>
> Are there any links out there that would be beneficial for someone with an
> IS background to learn Oracle? I know that by doing a search on the WWW, I
> could find tons of sites, but I thought I would ask the Oracle gurus. :)
>
> I am a 7 year IS/IT professional with a B.S. degree in CS/Math, and a M.A.
> degree in management. I currently work in an academic environment and in
> the past have worked for several other corporations including the natural
> gas industry and corporate sales.
>
> My experience includes managing IS projects as a team leader, managing data
> conversions, marketing interfaces, database admin/backups with IBM's
> Unidata RDBMS, AIX, Lotus Notes, FoxPro, MS-Access, Safari ODBC
> ReportWriter (a third party report-writer similar to Crystal Reports), and
> SQL of various flavors. ;-)
>
> For the past couple of years, I have tended to our college's database and
> system needs by making sure our DB is tweaked for efficiency and that our
> vendor software's patches and upgrades are installed while managing our
> custom-code base.
>
> I'm always in the market to learn new things. If possible, I would like to
> take what I learn about Oracle and gain some experience by doing volunteer
> work.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your insight. :)
>
> Best Regards.
Received on Tue Aug 06 2002 - 07:54:19 CDT