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Re: Advise needed: Can I use/learn Oracle quickly?

From: Erwin Moller <since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much_at_spamyourself.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:03:19 +0100
Message-Id: <402b4150$0$569$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>


OakRogbak_erPine_at_yahoo.com Kill the 2 trees in email address to reply wrote:

> GUI tools would be Enterprise Manager, DBA Studio (both Oracle
> products for DBAs) and TOAD (by Quest). I would stick to the command
> line mode for now using SQLPLUS (Oracle program). If you learn on a
> GUI, then teach them, then they are going to want those tools as well.
> They are not toys, they are for administrators and developers.
> I don't know about evaluation software since my employeer bought
> everthing. I think you can get something from Oracle that lets you
> evaluate it, check their website.
> Get a Dummies or learn in 30 days type book that gives you an overall
> explanation of how things work, then get something as a reference
> where you can look up the exact syntax for the commands that might be
> slightly different from what you know.
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Thanks a lot!
I agree. I think I will stick to SQLPLUS and get the Dummies book. I am downloading the evaluation of 9I for Linux now. (It is huge.)

Thanks for your advise.

Regards,
Erwin Moller Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 03:03:19 CST

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