Re: New user of Oracle 8 on NT requires some advice

Get Oracle8 the complete reference
[Quoted] and the Oracle 8 DBA Handbook both published by Oracle Press / Osborne.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:59:06 +0100, "Mark Chaplin" <mark.chaplin_at_emtek.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have begun working with an application which sits on top of an Oracle 8
>database. The Platform is NT and it appears to be Oracle Enterprise Edition.
>
>I have no experience with Oracle at this stage. Therefore, I would like to
>buy a book which will introduce me to Oracle 8 and get me started. I have a
>little experience with SQL so I am more interested in the features and
>utilities supplied with the Enterprise Edition which seem very comprehensive
>from all the items available from the Start menu..
>
>Some of the things I want to do include:
>
>1. Determine what tables have been created by the product and how the
>database is structured.
>
>2. Learn how to backup the database for disaster recovery purposes.
>
>3. Write my own front end to the database to create views with filters.
>
>4. Automate some audit/logging features unless Version 8 provides this
>already.
>
>Can anybody point me in the right direction whether books or websites.
>
>Any help much appreciated.
>
>Regards
>
>Mark
>
>
Received on Sun Oct 03 1999 - 13:26:03 CEST