Re: Quality of college education, am I being properly prepared?

"Rene L. Rodriguez" <bz176_at_freenet.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>Hello All,
>My name is Rene Rodriguez and I am a college Junior Transfer. My new
>school is teaching it's Database Management course using:
>
>SQL*Plus: Release 3.1.3.5.1
>Oracle7 Server Release 7.1.5.2.3
>with PL/SQL Release 2.1.5.2.0
>
>The question I would like answered: Am I being properly prepared for real
>world experiences. My school is running Oracle on a VAX/VMS alpha
>environment instead of using DOS, OS/2, Windows or Macintosh operating
>systems.
>
>Thank you all for your input.
>
>
>Rene
>--
>Rene L. Rodriguez
>bz176_at_freenet.buffalo.edu
>rodrrl13_at_snybufaa.cs.snybuf.edu
>http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~bz176
>

Rene:

I guess I would be more worried about the quality of instruction than about the tools used. Oracle 7.1 is not the most recent version of the Oracle Server. I believe 7.3.3 is the most recent, but the concepts you will learn in 7.1 are easily transferred not only to later versions of Oracle but to other relational DBMS's. If you have quality instructors who understand relational theory you should be just fine.

Hope this helps,

John Hough

ps: perhaps if you could tell why you are concerned I could provide more

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