Re: Newbie Oracle Question

Harperator wrote:
> Good Afternoon!
>
> I just started in an Oracle 10g office where I will be writeing web
> enabled front ends.
> I am a java JSP guy with a microsoft sql back end web programmer.
> I'm seeing there is software built into oracle for building web apps.
> Anyone have strong opinions on using oracle tools, or .net or jsp?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dan

I've no strong opinion with respect to .net or jsp but I do have a strong opinion with respect to people accessing databases who don't understand what they are doing.

If you do not instantly understand the following acronym "MVCC" and understand its implications I suggest you purchase Tom Kyte's books and read them thoroughly before inadvertently doing as so many other front-end developers and dragging the database to its knees. The one thing you need to truly understand before touching Oracle is that Oracle <> SQL Server. The concepts are different, the verbiage is different, transactions are different, locking is different, essentially everything that is not superficial is different.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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