Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!news-in.superfeed.net!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!not-for-mail From: karthik Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to find? Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:00:53 -0500 Organization: Purdue University Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <3f09b0ab@shknews01> <130ba93a.0307071524.5391145@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: me98pc2.ecn.purdue.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mozo.cc.purdue.edu 1057632634 13892 128.46.98.122 (8 Jul 2003 02:50:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.purdue.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:50:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:129121 Oracles features is enough to intimidate most users. If you have some programming experience, it should not be hard to pick up the basics of Oracle Sql Programmning. DBA is tougher. i would suggest thomas kytes book "Expert one on one Oracle" and Jonathan Lewis "Practical Oracle 8i". Forgive me if i get the last title wrong. Also check out Quest softwares knowledge expert for DBA and PLSQL. really helpful to get a quick start. Being a DBA is tough or easy depending on what you are managing. If you are a newbie and you need to manage an Oracle database with transactions going on all the time, its madness. You better find another job. If you are an Oracle DBA and given the task of managing a Read only database in a student lab (like me), its easy. Plus you get the oppurtunity to hack the thing and learn a bit! Good luck! Karthik Bob Woodward wrote: > Why is it so hard to find out how to get a simple list of what fricken files > there are? Okay, so I'm an Oracle moron but I've got plenty of programming > experience. Is there anyplace that has a straight forward "cheat sheet" > kind of listing of simple, "get you started" kind of commands? Maybe a > super condensed "For the neanderthal" Dummy's guide online? I've figured > out how to install 8i on Solaris but now I'm scratching my head going NOW > what? > > And PLEASE don't say RTFM. I've RTFM and am STILL confused of where to go > next. > >