Re: please help

Marcel wrote:
> Hi
> I am starting a job soon developing asp.net pages against oracle
> database.
> I know quite a lot about MS sql server (6 years experience) but I don't
> know anything about Oracle.
> There must be a few things that I 'must' know that is different from SQL
> server.... Could you help me please.
>
> Marcel

A few? Surely you are kidding. Almost everything is different.

The architecture and concepts are very different. Locking is different
The transaction model is different.
The types of tables are different.
The types of indexes are different.
Many object types, such as sequences, don't even exist in SQL Server.

Get a copy of Tom Kyte's book "Expert one-on-one Oracle" and read it cover-to-cover giving special attention to the first three chapters.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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