Re: which Oracle product should I choose, and....

For evaluation and study purposes you can always download trial versions at Oracle's website. Or find someone to hand you a CD... This is perfectly legal (at least in Europe, that is).

dirkske.

"ZAlexsatellite" <zalexsatellite_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:20010107165253.09505.00000689_at_ng-ch1.aol.com...
> Hello Oracle experts here, I am a college student and I have some
 questions
> about Oracle installation to consult you. These days I am learning Oracle,
 an
> currently I want to install Oracle on my PC. However I met two problems:
> 1. Since I am a novice to learn Oracle, which Oracle products do you
 recommend?
> (Oracle8i Lite? Oracle8i Personal Edition? Oracle8i Enterprise Edition?
 other
> products?). I am currently learning PL/SQL and JDBC programming associated
 with
> Oracle, maybe something else later.
>
> 2. I want to upgrade my win98 to Win2000(Professional or Server version),
 From
> your point of view, which OS is better to install for learning Oracle?
 Win2000
> Professional version or Server version(my PC is an PIII and with 192MBytes
> memory)?
>
> 3. In order to learn JDBC programming related with Oracle, which IDE is
 better
> to use?
>
> Maybe the above questions seems naive to you, but I really need your help!
 Your
> suggestions to any of the above questions are welcome.
> Thanks!!!
>
>
Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 09:48:18 CET