Re: Absolute Beginner

Start with Oracle 8, the Complete Reference, which is outstanding. You could start with SQL Plus reports and use Access and ODBC to connect to an Oracle Lite database.

Beware the Oracle Developer books, which I find generally seriously lacking

in detail: best is probably the list of functions in Stowe, but Lulushi is OK too.
I found myself constantly referring to examples to find out about NECESSARY

tools and subroutines. None of the examples in Oracle or the books was anywhere near realistic.

Finally, less is more: Developer does most things automatically for you, although
you may find it's default behaviour a bit awkward for most users. You can almost
build the data blocks and then layout fields with wizards and then run your application.

It's worth taking some time to experiment with that and a simple master-detail database.
My biggest surprise was that going to a field automatically opened its containing form,
for example.

Good luck,
Mike Rainville

Once you build one
significant application, the second will seem much easier.

andrea0404_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I am a highly experienced Access developer and I want to expand into
> SQL and the Oracle frontier.
>
> I am looking for a good book to learn the ins and outs. Since I have a
> lot of database experience, I don't really need anything that will
> teach me to "think like a database". I don't have any experience with
> Oracle and my SQL is limited to the little bit I have done while
> developing Access projects.
>
> Any suggestions??
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrea
>
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> Before you buy.
Received on Wed Mar 29 2000 - 02:00:31 CEST