Re: Best way to learn oracle basics - self study

Personal Oracle 8 runs standalone, and as far as I know isn't in anyway stripped (OK not distiributed database, but you won't need that anyway initially)

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Daisy <daisyvp_at_ibm.net> wrote in message news:37c3ed58_at_news1.us.ibm.net...
> Hello:
>
> As a newbie I want some advice on what is the best way to learn oracle
> fundamentals at home, basically sql, pl/sql and sql*plus.
>
> The courses offered by oracle are very expensive so I would like to study
by
> myself. Please tell me if I need to download the client and the server. I
> looked up the free downloads page but I am confused as to which one would
be
> the best one to download.
>
> I have NT workstation 4.0 at home and also have access to a machine
running
> NT server.
>
> If there's is any other point that I need to keep in mind, please let me
> know.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I apologize if this is not the correct forum to post this message.
>
> Daisy
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 12:19:06 CDT