Re: Self-Study CDs

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1074697162.195587_at_yasure>...
> angryman wrote:
>
> > Thanks Daniel. In answer to your Q's:
> >
> > 1. About Oracle? Very little. I found some tutorials on SQL on the web and
> > the database concept seems fairly straightforward, but there was nothing
> > about the interface which (so I hear) is where the difficulty lies.

I second Daniel's comments, and emphasize you should definitely check out the Oracle Concepts Manual from tahiti. Cruise through it before doing the cd's, don't worry too much about things that seem foreign. Then after the cd's, read the material on locking and consistency again.

iouga.org has some good stuff, but paid admission required. see also the various faqs http://members.cox.net/oracleunix/readme-cdos.htm and links.

Don't forget, there is some amount of misinformation floating about, even in the official docs.

> >
> > 2. I am an engineer so I have some C++, Fortran, Pascal, VB and so on. I
> > have briefly used an Access database, but never had the need to create one.
> >
> > 3. No. But I guess that's what I'm here for.
> >
> > 4. I am getting sick of asking other people to run queries on our database
> > for me and want to be able to do that myself. I am the sort of person who
> > not only wants to know how to use it, but also to know how it works, so a CD
> > course that I can go through quickly at night would be ideal.

Be careful, you might find out just how bad the other people are doing it! :-)

> >
> > In essence, I am a complete newbie and I want to get to a expert level ASAP.
> > I'm quite happy to put in the effort required.
> >
> > If anyone has any recommended texts/media for this sort of steep learning
> > curve I'd love to hear about them.

Remember film strips? Remember anything you actually learned from film strips?
s/Powerpoint/filmstrip/g

> >
> > Cheers.
>
> Based on your responses I think you would get far more value from some
> of the excellent books on the market as well as availing yourself of the
> free resouces such as:
>
> http://tahiti.oracle.com
> http://asktom.oracle.com
> and check out the links page at http://www.psoug.org for many more.
>
> I am working on a list of book recommendations that will be posted on
> the PSOUG web site soon. (no doubt I'll hurt someone's feelings so if
> anyone has any books they would like me to review please email me
> off-line ... Thanks).

cool!

jg

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