Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-09!sn-xit-08!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Developer to Oracle DBA? Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:11:53 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1094775176.656231@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <41403558$0$22755$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41403558$0$22755$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 41 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.misc:112558 Craig wrote: > I'm currently a Delphi Developer (some PHP too) working with mySQL and SQL > Server (And Paradox! Yuk!). Not enjoying it anymore, and wondering if it > would be a good move at 30 years old, to do an Oracle course (Never even > seen Oracle before!). Most of my Development till now has been DB apps, so > my standard SQL is good. Delphi work is pretty hard to come by at the moment > (Scotland), and also possibly relocating back to South Africa. > > Can anyone advise? > > Maybe point me out a few courses in the UK or SA that would be beneficial? > Most jobs, though, seem to require 2 years exp in Oracle, before then even > sniff at you. Can anyone advise me on how to fix that!? :) > > And finally, is there a 'demo' version of Oracle that can run on my Windows > PC that I can play with and try and get SOME knowldege about before doing a > course? > > Thanks guys, > Craig I love it when those barely out of diapers worry about their age. ;-) Get a copy of Tom Kyte's book "Expert one-on-one Oracle". Pay special attention to the first three chapters. Download Oracle from http://otn.oracle.com (free) or purchase the CD set from http://store.oracle.com (very inexpensive even for an individual). Run the many tutorials available at otn.oracle.com, read the content at asktom.oracle.com and run the tutorials and demos at http://www.psoug.org (Morgan's Library). I am sure their are good courses in the U.K. Hopefully someone will be able to point you to one. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)