Re: Student needs help for his thesis !

Best thing for someone new to Oracle (database) is a book called

Oracle Essentials
(O'Reilly - ISBN 1-56592-708-7)

I've loaned my copy out to a number of people, including hardware technical support people, and they all returned my copy AFTER buying their own. It goes into the right depth of knowledge for a new person, has enough info as quick reference for an experienced DBA and is reasonablly short (340 pages)

After that, check out http://technet.oracle.com (free registration & a whole lot of useful stuff there, including the database and all documentation free). Get the software and the install documentation from technet, install, then get some of the software samples to kick start your project.

As far as the kernel recompile - on Solaris the recompile requirement is several Solaris versions back - you must however be able to edit the /etc/system file with appropraite Shared Memory parameters (the default provided in the Oracle installation for Solaris is OK)

Only kicker, as far as I'm concerned - mimimum memory is 256MB, minimum free disk space is 2 GB.

/Hans

devnix wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a student in engineering and I need help for my thesis.
> I have to do a software which will manage the process of a small compagny
> (see information about the workflow etc...)
>
> I have to create a client application which would communicate with a DB server.
> The database must run under Solaris (and should be able to run under Windows),
> and must be relational and support SQL.
> For the client, they would like to use StarOffice (to manipulate data retrieved
> by SQL...) if possible, as they already use it for their activities.
>
> So I was wondering:
> - do you know such a database, and which is relatively simple to handle?
> I tried to install Oracle but it's pretty hard ! they talk about recompiling the kernel
> and such things (?)... without doing that the install freezes on my sparc :(
> Is there a simplier database which runs on solaris & windows?
> (or do you know how to make Oracle work?)
>
> - how can I create an interface (which ideally would be part of Staroffice) and
> which would communicate with a distant DB via SQL, in a transparent way ?
> I heared of (staroffice's) APIs?? I don't have many experience in development
> (a little bit of C & Java...) Is it possible to use Staroffice to do that?
> Maybe it would we better to use PHP or JSP?
>
> Any help would be welcome!
> Thanks !
>
> devnix <devnix AT mailandnews DOT com>
  Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 08:27:35 CEST