Re: On-line tutorial for Oracle 7/SQL

Xochi Zen wrote:
>
> Are there any on-line tutorials for Oracle 7/SQL? Browsing
> through the unofficial Oracle FAQ, I didn't see one mentioned...
> but maybe I didn't look hard enough. Did a search on yahoo which
> didn't bring-up much of anything.
>
> Where does Oracle start getting difficult to use? I've been
> teaching myself how to create tables and to do queries by joining
> tables... (I guess with any more than 3 or so tables, this could
> get rather hairy...) so far, it all seems pretty comprehensible
> and straightforward to me.
>
> As an Oracle newbie, I was curious to know where most of the
> development work was... in front-end design or the actual design of
> databases... I'd rather work on the latter, as I'm not really interested
> in making things look pretty... functionality? yes. But I'm not at all
> interested in creating bloated/pretty front ends for people.
>
> A friend of mine keeps telling me how wonderful 4D is, and how
> you can just draw a line to make foreign keys, etc... and it did make
> me wonder why Oracle was still entirely command-line based (the version
> I use is anyway...). What can Oracle do that 4D can't? I don't know a
> lot about RDBMSes, and he keeps telling me to ditch Oracle and learn
> 4D. I'm open at this point, because I haven't spent much time with Oracle
> yet.
>
> Also, at what point would someone learning Oracle on their own
> be "qualified" to go out and look for work doing Oracle? For example,
> is there any sort of sample project that I might want to try and tackle
> on my own that would prove that I had a sufficient knowledge of Oracle
> to get work using it?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me.
>
> - Xochi
>
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Hi Zen,
There are severalbooks that are available in the market on oracle dbms. The best ones are from the oracle press. You can start with "The beginners guide to oracle".
Hope this helps

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