Re: Learn Oracle DBA

In article <328EADE5.57FD_at_erols.com>,

   "Lee, Yiu Shih" <yiushlee_at_erols.com> wrote:

Personal Oracle should be fine for most things..it is just a version of oracle which is single-user only; you cannot set it up as a server in a client-server configuration; thats the only limitation.

In fact, because its on a PC, you can use it to practice things such as database recovery after data file corruption, which is not easy to do with the database on a shared server!

Miles Thomas
My opinions only!

>I am trying to buy an Oracle at home to learn DBA by myself. Which
>version should I get? Is "Oracle personal" good enough? My purpose is
>to get an Oracle DBA job, I need a version I could learn most, if not all
>of the DBA stuff. I am a DBA in other database, so I don't think to
>learn it at home is a problem. Since I will use it only for learning, I
>want to spent as little as possible.
>Also, could some one suggest the best book for this purpose?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Yiu Shih Lee
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