Re: Need advice on learning Oracle

I agree with the advice others have given you so far. The concepts guide is good. Getting a LINUX or NT box is good. Getting a copy of Oracle from http://store.oracle.com and working through its installation and configuration is good. But I highly recommend you buy Tom Kyte's book "expert one-on-one Oracle" because it gives many excellent examples of what you need to unlearn ... which is critical before reading the concepts guide. If you don't have the differences explicitly pointed out ... you will have a strong tendency to do things in the SQL Server way ... and that just is a non-starter in Oracle.

Daniel Morgan

NorwoodThree wrote:

> Nothing beats real world experience...I'd suggest getting a Linux box,
> and installing Oracle on it and familiarize yourself with it...
>
> As for books, the certification guides would be my recommendation.
> Pretty much what you need to know from a junior DBA perspective is all
> right there. Once you get thru that, you can move to specialty books
> such as tuning, etc if you are interested. If you're not familiar
> with UNIX, I'd pick up some knowledge there as well. Hope this helps.
>
> My .02
Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 09:02:47 CST