Re: Should I study Oracle 8i/9i or 9i directly/

Personally, I would recommend the 8i->9i route.

There's a hell of a lot of new features in 9i, and many of them develop, or expand on, stuff that was introduced in 8i. Cut out 8i, and a lot of 9i is going to seem a bit mysterious. (For example: "Locally Managed Tablespaces are now the default". Great... but what's a locally managed tablespace??! "Materialized Views now Fast Refresh more readily than in 8i". Lovely... but what's a Materialised View, and what's Fast Refresh when it's at home?

I can't speak for what other training organisations do (and I don't speak for Oracle, either), but the official Oracle 9i New Features course *assumes* familiarity with 8i new features.

As was discussed here some weeks ago, too: going from 8i to 9i means that you are required to know about things like Advanced Replication and Workspace Management. Doing 9i direct would not require that level of knowledge. If you want an easy time of it, therefore, direct 9i is the way to go. But if you actually want to know, understand and use the product competently, the 8i -> 9i upgrade route is more thorough, and ultimately more productive.

Regards
HJR "Terry H" <LYYLAM_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:196e2f63.0208112207.70bccfbf_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Please give me some advice.
>
> Should I study 8i -> 9i or study 9i directly?
> Do you know any good Oracle training school in South bay of California
> (alameda county or Santa Clare county)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Terry H.
Received on Mon Aug 12 2002 - 06:44:23 CDT