Re: Newbie question

Try to get hold of Personal Oracle (8i). Basically, that's the full product for desktop. You can get it from www.oracle.com or http://technet.oracle.com.
It doesn't come with a complete development environment as Developer is considered a distinct product.
It probably comes with SQL*Plus (command line interface to Oracle), Pro*C (precompiler for C) and Oracle Objects for Ole, Access/DAO like interface to Oracle from within Visual Basic and Visual C. The 8i release definitely comes with Java and JDBC. As I don't have Personal Oracle, due to lack of disc space, money (to replace the complete PC) I can't provide any more details.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
<matt_cable_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:816r9c$rci$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I'm going to be taking an Oracle programming course this Spring. Is
> there any way to get a hold of a desktop Oracle/SQL editor/compiler?
> I'd like to get a job developing Oracle applications, but I'm in the
> Navy and so can't work for anybody full time for another few years.
> What I'd like to do is to write programs on my own for small businesses,
> churches, schools, etc., using my own resources so that I can build up a
> list of projects successfully completed before I go out and get a
> full-time developing job. I have Delphi 3(I was all prepared to take a
> Pascal course this semester so that I could start writing applications
> in that, but this school no longer teach Pascal and I'm told nobody uses
> it anymore anyway), is the Interbase option in Delphi something that I
> could write usable SQL applications in? Any free SQL compilers out
> there like there are for Java?
> Thanks.
>
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Received on Sat Nov 20 1999 - 13:19:47 CST