Re: Self-Study CDs

Thanks Daniel. In answer to your Q's:

1. About Oracle? Very little. I found some tutorials on SQL on the web and the database concept seems fairly straightforward, but there was nothing about the interface which (so I hear) is where the difficulty lies.
2. I am an engineer so I have some C++, Fortran, Pascal, VB and so on. I have briefly used an Access database, but never had the need to create one.
3. No. But I guess that's what I'm here for.
4. I am getting sick of asking other people to run queries on our database for me and want to be able to do that myself. I am the sort of person who not only wants to know how to use it, but also to know how it works, so a CD course that I can go through quickly at night would be ideal.

In essence, I am a complete newbie and I want to get to a expert level ASAP. I'm quite happy to put in the effort required.

If anyone has any recommended texts/media for this sort of steep learning curve I'd love to hear about them.

Cheers.

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1074663192.230601_at_yasure...
> angryman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone tried the Oracle Self-study CD's and would they recommend
them?
> >
> > Classes always run too slow for my liking, so I would like to hear from
> > people of the same ilk if possible.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> It would help to know the following:
>
> 1. What already do you know?
> 2. What are your previous experiences ... databases and languages?
> 3. Do you understand normalization?
> 4. What do you expect to get out of it?
>
> My general statement would be no. But I have been known to be wrong ...
> and I've been known to change my mind.
>
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Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 00:12:38 CST