Re: practical databasing - starter info

Check this:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/index.html

"csk" <csk_at_dont-email-me.com> wrote in message news:<a29p1d$dug$1_at_news.vsnl.net.in>...
> Hi
> Having studied database theory long back in college,
> and never having used it practically ever, I now want
> to give a take on it. Installed Oracle 8i server, opened
> sqlplus - created tables and tried some queries - it worked.
> there is more here, some terminology new to me.
> (like tns listener, user tables, system tables, relationships/associations,
> views, triggers, stored procedures, data-sources, etc).
> Should I really need to learn these to be able to use a database.
> Any good online tutorial on these things?
>
> Now I want to do it from java. I hear two terms - jdbc and
> jdo. am new to both. somebody says jdo is today's hot stuff.
> Can I skip entirely learning jdbc?
>
> Good and/or brief tutorials on these are welcome.
>
> thanks
> csk
Received on Sat Jan 19 2002 - 03:19:15 CET