Re: FAQs for Oracle (especially personal / lite versionss?)

Some useful sites and (hopefully) useful advice http://technet.oracle.com contains *all* manuals, sample code, and forums. You need to subscribe, but that's free. Contains also free downloads, but the ftp site is usually very slow

http://www.orafaq.org
http://www.oramag.com
http://www.revealnet.com
http://www.ixora.com.au
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

I would also advice to
read the Oracle Concepts Manual
and buy
Oracle, the complete reference, focuses on sql and sql*plus, doesn't cover DBA topics
The Oracle DBA handbook (covers DBA topics only) The book on PL/SQL programming buy Steven Feuerstein. There is also a new book called Oracle Essentials published by O'Reilly, and that seems to direct mainly at beginners. The books of O'Reilly on Oracle are usually very good.
Finally: read that manual before you start posting. Always include your platform and your version details in your post. Another finally: there should be an Oracle getting started manual in that doc kit. That really should work.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

<charleshahn_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8j1k6g$abn$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> As a newbie here, I'd love to find out that there is a site where FAQs
> answer a lot of these questions. Having bought the CD Pack from Oracle
> Corp I'm grateful the price is so low, but in trying to work with the
> Personal 8i I'm running into a showstopper right away, and without a
> way to send the question to Oracle (I can't find a way on their site
> anyhow) or FAQ to refer to, and not even knowing enough to really
> search Deja properly (or understand some of the answers) this is a
> tough one. Advice cheerfully sought... Thanks!
>
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Received on Sat Jun 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT