Re: learning Oracle

From: Markus Boehmer <markus.boehmer_at_schaefer-shop.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:09:26 +0100
Message-ID: <avu2ts$di$1@news.dtag.de>

hackman schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know what would be the best way to start learning databases.
> I have a FreeBSD box and I would like to run Oracle on this box so that I
> could practise Oracle related things (I have several Oracle books).
>
> Is there a way to obtain Oracle for free for studying purposes? If not, which
> one of the free database software (MySQL, PostgreSQL) is closest to Oracle?
>
> Thanks a lot for helping me out with this!

hi hackman,

go to otn.oracle.com and create an account. For learning purposes the use of the oracle database is free, if I understood the license agreement correctely.

You can download various versions for various operating systems.

Greetings
Markus Received on Mon Jan 13 2003 - 03:09:26 CST