Re: few basic questions

>
> Its been a while since Ive worked with oracle and I forgotten some basic
> things:
>
> When using the oracle client on win2k, what is the tool that you can type
> SQL commands into. I remember there were two, one was better than the other.

sqlplus.exe and wsqlplus.exe

I find sqlplus.exe the better one.  

> When youre starting a new project, what do you create your tables in...is it
> a "database" or a "project"? you know, the thing a DBA would set up for you
> and tell you the user/pass for.

That's a schema.  

> On the client. is tnsnames.ora the only thing you have to configure?

Depends. Probably, you want to configure sqlnet.ora as well.

hth
Rene

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