Re: Oracle9i Certified Database Associate - books & Test Software

If you want to stick with windows then I'd advise WinXP *Professional*. 2000 is an excellent OS but XP appears to me to be an improvement.

Just my opinion.

Now if anyone can suggest a better newsreader than OE I'd be grateful.

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"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
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> I can't comment on the books. But no: Personal Edition is definitely not

> enough. The course material (on which the exams are largely based) assumes

> Enterprise Edition (occasionally remembering to state that feature X or

> feature Y is *only* available in the Enterprise Edition). The 9i New

> Features course, which is the basis for the 9i upgrade exam, will even

> expect you to know about partitioning -which isn't even a standard

component


> of the Enterprise Edition, but a paid-for extra.

>

> So, it's time to dump Windows 98 and move up to Windows 2000 (there's

always


> Linux, of course, if that's too expensive), and download the free

Enterprise


> Edition from technet.oracle.com. If you want to take the exams seriously,

> that is.

>

> It's also time you didn't cross-post.

>

> Regards

> HJR

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> "Prakash S" <prakashswami_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message

> news:63ea99a2.0204111102.f13b76f_at_posting.google.com...

> > Hi,

> > I am new to Oracle. What books are required to pass the exams

> > 1. Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL (#1Z0-007)

> > 2. Oracle 9i Database: Fundamentals I (#1Z0-031)

> > Also is selftestsoftware better than Transcender?

> >

> > is it enough if have personal Oracle installed to practise whatever I

> > learn to pass the exams?

> >

> > thanks for your help.

> >

> > Prakash

>

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