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Hans,
I want to thank you for responding. I really appreciate it. It's my
fault that I didn't look at the top of the window to see that there is
a 3 to 9 hour posting time.
Thanks for all the valuable info. I read the Oracle9i for Beginners by
Oracle Press and although it opened the door to concepts used, I can
see that this is one of those topics in which the more you know, the
more you found out how much you DON'T know.
Thanks again.
Cliff J
Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:<3EF8F2AC.4C78DF5D_at_telusplanet.net>...
> Cliff J wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am new to Oracle. I am a network guy who is trying to get some
> > knowledge using Oracle. I installed Oracle8i. All I want to do is log
> > in as with the root account and look at the example database that
> > comes with the install. I try to log in to SQL using the
> > System/Manager account but I don't have sufficient privileges to look
> > at data.
> > My questions are, is there a built-in "admin" account that I should be
> > using to administrate the database and is there a GUI that I can use
> > to view data?
> > Thanks. I appreciate it.
>
> Since you are new and want to lean, I strongly encourage you to start with
> the Concepts manual first.
>
> All Oracle documentation is online and available free of charge at
> http://docs.oracle.com (same as http://otn.oracle.com >> Documentation)
>
> I also suggest you consider looking at "Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i,
> Oracle8i & Oracle8" (ISBN 0-596-00179-7 @ http://oracle.oreilly.com/)
> and Beginning Oracle Programming by Sean Dillon, et. al. (ISBN:
> 186100690X) now out of print but still available if you're lucky.
>
> Please don't get used to accessing the database under the SYS or SYSTEM
> userids. After you've gone through Conceptrs manual you should understand
> why.
>
> As for a GUI to access data - 'real DBAs use SQL*Plus'. (Beginning Oracle
> Programming explains why). Although you could consider iSQLPlus <g>
Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 06:28:25 CDT