Re: Finally Finished my Oracle install but now what?

From: dmz17 <dmz17_at_nospam.nowhere.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:23:59 +0100
Message-ID: <pan.2002.11.30.10.23.59.745589@nospam.nowhere.com>

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:47:24 +0000, Crackpot wrote:

> Hello all,
> I finished installing Oracle 8i on my Suse 8.0 Server and I want to learn
> how to program to this database. Previously I used VB to connect to Access
> databases. That was easy but what other applications do I used to write to
> a Oracle Server or SQL Server? What does linux have equivelant to microsoft
> VB? Basically I want to know; if I want to start programing, what
> applications should I used to access the database test it and play with
> making tables etc....
> Thanks

Oracle primarily a server system. So is Linux. You can get the client software for Windows and program Oracle as you have been used to. On non-Windows platforms however, people tend to use PL/SQL, Java, PHP, Perl.

Much depends on what you need to use the database for.

Cheers,

dmz17 Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 04:23:59 CST