Re: Newbie :)

Fabio Cannavaro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I come from sql server 2000 and now I have to learn oracle (!).
>
> Can you point me to some resource for newbie on Oracle to learn
> something? I mean also history of the product, its evolution and so on.
>
> any help much appreciated.
>
> thx.

Tom Kyte's books.
http://tahiti.oracle.com (read Concepts docs first, then Architecture docs, before looking at any syntax)

Best possible advice. Everything in Oracle is different ... even when it seems familiar. The words "database" and "instance" have an entirely different meaning. Locking and transactions are based on completely different paradigms. Never ever build a temp table.

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