Re: Sysadmin trying to learn Oracle...help!

tonij67_at_hotmail.com wrote in
news:1136580445.827266.192730_at_g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been a sys admin for a while now, going on 8 years. I support
> systems with various versions of Oracle running on Solaris. I have
> always threatend to actually learn something about Oracle and I am
> finally beggining that journey.
>
> And it sure is humbling!
>
> I have a couple books here, one of them is a Study Guide for Oracle 8i
> and one is O'Reillys "Oracle SQL*Plus".
>
> While both have a lot of information, I am having a hard time even
> getting started...think I need an "Oracle for Dummies" or something. A
> coworker set up a database for me that I believe is fairly simple, it
> loads in data from a text file that is recording disk space usage over
> multiple systems for trending purposes. I have full access to this
> database, i.e. I can connect to it and see a shiny SQL> prompt but I
> am at a loss as to where to go from here.
>
> Are there any decent resources that can get me going in the right
> direction? Out of these two books I have, they cover a lot of high end
> stuff but a lot of it seems to assume that I already know what I am
> doing; but I dont! For now I would be happy to see what sort of
> tables exist in this database, what they are called, i.e. but all of
> the examples I find assume I already know that. One example I found is
> the "describe" command. Looks handy at first, but the examples in the
> book say to do something like this:
>
> DESCRIBE <argument>
>
> How can I find out what <argument> possibilities are? Is there some
> sort of overview command that will help me fill in the blanks here?
>
> TIA,
>
>

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