dumb newbie questions

Hello to all you Oracle experts.
I am just starting my foray into the world of Oracle8, I have installed it on NT (trial version from Oracle site) and read the accompanying docs till my eyes hurt (there's just *so* much of it!). I'd like to now create an example database of my own, or experiment with the starter database that came with it.

Here's the questions:

In the starter database, the docs say the contents consist of User accounts, Tablespaces, etc. What it doesn't say is whether there is any data in it. Are there any data tables already created, which I can muck around with with SQL? svrmgr30.exe is the Server Manager program, I guess. Issuing a HELP command in this utility tells me I should read the Server Manager User's Guide. However, there is only an Oracle7 Server Manager User's Guide in the documentation, which seems to concern a graphical version of the program. Where do I get the docs for Oracle8 Server Manager User's Guide?

Any help will be appreciated, I realise I've probably missed some basic points concerning databases of this scale - I've got a long way to go...

Thanks Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 11:41:28 CDT