Re: New user of Oracle 8 on NT requires some advice

To start, the Oracle documentation is quite good. It's free on their web site (after you register for free). Read the concepts manual for your version of Oracle. It's a couple of hundred pages and will give you a good overview of how things tie together.

Van

Mark Chaplin <mark.chaplin_at_emtek.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:938934272.9286.0.nnrp-04.c1eddab9_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi
>
> I have begun working with an application which sits on top of an Oracle 8
> database. The Platform is NT and it appears to be Oracle Enterprise
Edition.
>
> I have no experience with Oracle at this stage. Therefore, I would like to
> buy a book which will introduce me to Oracle 8 and get me started. I have
a
> little experience with SQL so I am more interested in the features and
> utilities supplied with the Enterprise Edition which seem very
comprehensive
> from all the items available from the Start menu..
>
> Some of the things I want to do include:
>
> 1. Determine what tables have been created by the product and how the
> database is structured.
>
> 2. Learn how to backup the database for disaster recovery purposes.
>
> 3. Write my own front end to the database to create views with filters.
>
> 4. Automate some audit/logging features unless Version 8 provides this
> already.
>
> Can anybody point me in the right direction whether books or websites.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 05 1999 - 20:05:22 CDT