Are there any on-line tutorials for Oracle 7/SQL? Browsing
through the unofficial Oracle FAQ, I didn't see one mentioned...
but maybe I didn't look hard enough. Did a search on yahoo which
didn't bring-up much of anything.
Where does Oracle start getting difficult to use? I've been
teaching myself how to create tables and to do queries by joining
tables... (I guess with any more than 3 or so tables, this could
get rather hairy...) so far, it all seems pretty comprehensible
and straightforward to me.
As an Oracle newbie, I was curious to know where most of the
development work was... in front-end design or the actual design of
databases... I'd rather work on the latter, as I'm not really interested
in making things look pretty... functionality? yes. But I'm not at all
interested in creating bloated/pretty front ends for people.
A friend of mine keeps telling me how wonderful 4D is, and how
you can just draw a line to make foreign keys, etc... and it did make
me wonder why Oracle was still entirely command-line based (the version
I use is anyway...). What can Oracle do that 4D can't? I don't know a
lot about RDBMSes, and he keeps telling me to ditch Oracle and learn
4D. I'm open at this point, because I haven't spent much time with Oracle
yet.
Also, at what point would someone learning Oracle on their own
be "qualified" to go out and look for work doing Oracle? For example,
is there any sort of sample project that I might want to try and tackle
on my own that would prove that I had a sufficient knowledge of Oracle
to get work using it?
Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me.
