RE: Oracle Spatial

Eriovaldo,

Spatial is not just relational stuff. I did the Technical Review of the book "Pro Oracle Spatial" by Ravi Kothuri, Albert Godfrind and Euro Beinat (Apress, 2nd edition appeared in 2007).

When I reviewed the 1st edition, Spatial was new to me (In- and Outside of Oracle). The book tought me a lot. Mark is right. It is not the easiest topic around, but this book is probably a good start. If you have some proper programming background, and have changed platform several times, Spatial is just a new platform with new rules. Becoming experienced will take time, of course.

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 12:38 -0400, Mark W. Farnham wrote:
> Oracle has a pretty good course for using their spatial software.
> “Easy” is a tough call. The concepts of planar geometry and spatial
> database theory are a bit complicated. I would say that Oracle’s
> software is relatively easy to use in the context of a pretty
> challenging field of knowledge.
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> It depends a lot on how complex a use of Spatial features is in your
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> I’d say the “fine working with” conversion rate from being a
> professional with relational technology to working with Oracle Spatial
> and Spatial data models is similar to the conversion rate from working
> with third generation programming languages to object oriented
> languages and that it varies by person.
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> Regards,
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> Hi All,
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> Does anyone know Oracle Spatial ?
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> A professional that works with Relataional Database will be fine
> working with Oracle Spatial and Spatial data models ?
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> Eriovaldo
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