Re: Newbie---where to start?

In <40g8o2$8al_at_ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> jblair_at_ix.netcom.com I wrote:

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Let's look at a strategy for learning Oracle on your own, for about a cost of $500.00 or less, US dollars.

1. Buy a copy of Personal Oracle for Windows for your PC. This will be your major investment. Expect to pay about $400.00 US.
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2. Buy a copy of "Mastering Oracle7 & Client/Server Computing" by Steven Bobrowski, SYBEX publishers. This should run you in the neighborhood of $40.00 US. ....
3. After you've conquered that, you're ready to move on to PL/SQL - Oracle's Procedural Language extensions to SQL. Steven Fauerstein has just finished writing the first book on PL/SQL Programming for O'Reilly pubishers. I did a technical review of the book, and it is *excellent*! I think the cost is around $40 US.

Another option to explore if your company is migrating towards Oracle and they have a lot of folks to train and *no* training budget is consortium training. That's where a company sets up a training room, installs the software, and brings a trainer on-site.

They let the training company provide a public class in their training room free of charge, in exchange for a certain number of free seats per class - often one or two. My company has this arrangement with USAir and another company, and it works well for all concerned.

Best of luck to you. If I can be of any further help, please feel free to write.
Be great!!
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Jennifer Blair, President
Blair Technical Training
ORACLE/UNIX Training
Alexandria, VA
email: jblair_at_ix.netcom.com
voice: 703-922-3664

UPDATE: It appears this can be done for even less than I originally quoted, since I see that you can get Personal Oracle7 free off the www. So, for the cost of the two books reccommended above (about $80), and the time needed, you could get rolling.

Such a deal!

P.S. This is a faq - who would I contact to forward the longer response to? Received on Sat Aug 12 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST