Total oracle newbie

Howdy,

I've worked with DB2 & hierarchical databases for most of my computing life, but have been a casual observer to the explosion of Oracle use. I've visited websites and inquired as to information regarding Oracle certification, there is a course offered costing around 12K fr this but that seems ridiculous to me.

I'm moving out of the mainframe field of specialisation and want to move into business for myself as the niche for Hogan specialists is drying up here - more and more work is being shipped to India and I'd just generally like to move away from Mainframe /larege corporations altogether. Is there any cheaper alternative to gaining Oracle certification than forking out heaps of money when for the same price I could be finishing my master's.

Basically I'm seeking to provide computing services to small to mid range business concerns from network design and construction to finished internet and internal network client server systems includiong database development through to developed product support.

Loads of information on Oracle would be appreciated.

Without providing a thesis, whatever happened to Sybase and how does Oracle compare to other products such as SQL Windows etc.

Thanks in advance. Email me
Anthony Received on Fri Feb 07 2003 - 15:17:03 CST