Re: Help: which Oracle product should I choose?

Hi,
my personal recommendation would be :

- Oracle8i Personal Edition on Win2000 Professional.
- Get Toad for PL/SQL Stored Procedures etc.
- Use jDeveloper/jBuilder for Java.

Oracle Lite is not up to scratch. I have 8.1.6 and it is a messy product to install. Some of it's bugs are rather silly (if you have data containing of ";" in a varchar2, Oracle Lite may treat is as a new command, or may not. So INSERT INTO xxx VALUES ('abcdefg;hijk') will work on all except Oracle Lite.)

Oracle 8i Standard is also a good bet (especially if you want to do stuff in Java).

You won't need 2000 Server unless you want to do some fancier stuff with replication or so.

Ted

On 07 Jan 2001 21:40:46 GMT, zalexsatellite_at_aol.com (ZAlexsatellite) wrote:

>Hello Oracle experts here, I am a college student and I have some questions
>about Oracle installation to consult you. These days I am learning Oracle, an
>currently I want to install Oracle on my PC. However I met two problems:
>1. Since I am a novice to learn Oracle, which Oracle products do you recommend?
>(Oracle8i Lite? Oracle8i Personal Edition? Oracle8i Enterprise Edition? other
>products?). I am currently learning PL/SQL and JDBC programming associated with
>Oracle, maybe something else later.
>
>2. I want to upgrade my win98 to Win2000(Professional or Server version), From
>your point of view, which OS is better to install for learning Oracle? Win2000
>Professional version or Server version(my PC is an PIII and with 192MBytes
>memory)?
>
>3. In order to learn JDBC programming related with Oracle, which IDE is better
>to use?
>
>Maybe the above questions seems naive to you, but I really need your help! Your
>suggestions to any of the above questions are welcome.
>Thanks!!!
>
>

EMail: knijff_at_bigfoot.com Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 13:50:15 CST