Re: User friendly Help file for Oracle

The manuals are in html and while you can use the search function I usually just go to the book and chapter via the table of contents for each book. It is very fast and I don't get a ton of irrelevant stuff which is one reason I didn't like the sqlserver online docs I had to search and I would get a ton of hits. There is an index for each book and there is a master index across all books. It looks like an index in a book. The other reason I like it is that I have the complete documentation set on my hard drive. In years past I had to carry a load of books around - although that might do me some good health wise :-).

No, there isn't a native bit type. While you are at it you will need to look up what a sequence is (that's going to be the next question, you just don't know it yet). Also the concurrency models of the 2 systems are worlds apart and it behooves you to understand the difference. Finally, you don't need to create temp tables. Some helpful sites: otn.oracle.com
asktom.oracle.com (you will also see a small plug in the bottom right of the page for Tom's book which is excellent and well worth the money.) Jim

"frank" <frankw_at_qd.lucent.com> wrote in message news:a9jb0l$7l7_at_nntpb.cb.lucent.com...
> Thanks Jim,
> When I want to know if Oracle support data type bit, in SQL Server, I need
> only bring out the Book on line, and type in the "data type" in the index
> page, and the information about "data type" is shown there, but in Oracle,
I
> can only type in "data type" in the Search function, and so many related
> topics lined there. It's difficult to locate the information I wanted.
> Maybe there is something like in the SQL Server's Book on line's "Index",
I
> haven't found.
>
> Best Regards,
> Frank
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>
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Received on Wed Apr 17 2002 - 08:58:18 CDT