Re: Help: which oracle product should I choose?

In article <20010107165356.09505.00000690_at_ng-ch1.aol.com>,   zalexsatellite_at_aol.com (ZAlexsatellite) wrote:
> Hello Oracle experts here, I am a college student and I have some
 questions
> about Oracle installation to consult you. These days I am learning
 Oracle, an
> currently I want to install Oracle on my PC. However I met two
 problems:
> 1. Since I am a novice to learn Oracle, which Oracle products do you
 recommend?
> (Oracle8i Lite? Oracle8i Personal Edition? Oracle8i Enterprise
Edition? other

Personal Edition at least. Enterprise Edition is the best choice. Lite is not a real Oracle server.

> products?). I am currently learning PL/SQL and JDBC programming
 associated with
> Oracle, maybe something else later.
>
> 2. I want to upgrade my win98 to Win2000(Professional or Server
 version), From
> your point of view, which OS is better to install for learning Oracle?
 Win2000
> Professional version or Server version(my PC is an PIII and with
 192MBytes
> memory)?

Linux is the best. NT would do. Oracle is not sertified under Windows 2000. So for the beginning you can stick with Win98.

>
> 3. In order to learn JDBC programming related with Oracle, which IDE
 is better
> to use?

I don't know. I learned this stuff from Oracle demos, supplied with server. It's pretty simple.

>
> Maybe the above questions seems naive to you, but I really need your
 help! Your
> suggestions to any of the above questions are welcome.
> Thanks!!!
>
>

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