Re: Total oracle newbie

"OctoPrime" <OctoPrime_at_NOSPAMWhiteHouse.gov> wrote in message news:pan.2003.02.07.20.54.05.497902.387_at_NOSPAMWhiteHouse.gov...

>You will need
> to know how to move around in UNIX for the classes.

Only if you have an extremely bad instructor. The courses are Oracle courses, not O/S ones. The specific syntax for moving around in the O/S is provided in the various appendices of the courses, and can be typed in more or less mindlessly. And any decent trainer will be more than willing to whiz around the training room offering help and support on O/S-specific issues as and when asked.

And by the end of Chapter 7 of the DBA Fundamentals I course, you've more or less finished dealing with the physical attributes of a database anyway, and most of the rest of the course is all done in SQL*Plus, using SQL. Likewise with the rest of the curriculum.

All you need to do the class, given that they tend to be run on Unix, is to know that slashes go the wrong way round, and Unix is case sensitive. Provided you can 'cd', you'll be fine.

Rather than the O/S, what you want is to avoid like the plague any instructor who starts plodding through the course material, rather than telling it like it is.

Regards
HJR Received on Fri Feb 07 2003 - 18:42:53 CST