Re: Oracle newbie questions

On Aug 28, 5:35 pm, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> es330td wrote:
> > I am a 14 year SQL Server DBA/developer.  My company has a web based
> > enterprise application we license to clients and up until they have
> > all used SQL Server backends.  We have an RFP on the table to license
> > the software to a new client but they want to use Oracle 11g as their
> > datastore.  In addition to MSSQL, I've done development/design work in
> > the past on Informix and DB2 so adapting to a new RDBMS should be
> > straightforward.  That said, I am going to have to convert a number of
> > stored procedure from Transact SQL and have never written anything in
> > PL/SQL.  I have about a month to get the application up and running on
> > Oracle.  (Note that 95% of the logic is in the webpages and only
> > limited stored procedure are used throughout the site.)
>
> > I went to oracle.com and registered and then downloaded Oracle
> > Database 11g Release 1, Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Client and
> > Oracle Database 11g Examples
>
> > Oracle appears to have an installation guide to get me started (IT is
> > configuring a clean W2K3 install for me) but I'm sure I am going to
> > need some reference materials for Oracle, especially PL/SQL.  If
> > anyone know of any books they like they can recommened I would
> > appreciate it.
>
> > This system will be W2K3 and Oracle 11g
>
> Apart from Oracle's own documentation, which is excellent and free, but
> can be a bit difficult to wade though at times, Fuerstein is always a
> reasonable bet. Personally I don't like his style much, but the content
> is fine.
>
> I suspect though, that the biggest difficulty you will have is in
> accepting that TSQL doesn't "translate" well to PL/SQL, nor vice versa.
> Something of a rethink is always needed. Word of warning: beware in
> particular the select into or select first row when there is no data found.
>
> Good luck, however. If you have a month for coding and the application
> is anything other than trivial in its use of the database, I hope the
> project manager has allowed two or three months for testing.
>
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We have several months for the actual implementation; the one month deadline is to show that it can run using Oracle as the backend. I don't have to have it perfect and 100% complete but I do need to be able to complete one branch of process flow from beginning to end. I can omit some "branches" of the app but the critical path must work end-to-end. Received on Thu Aug 28 2008 - 16:52:35 CDT