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New To Oracle Needs guidance
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| bhasi 2002-11-29, 12:48 am |
| Hello Friends,
I am New to this board as well as to Oracle So First let me say Hi 
to all of you.
Basically i am a MCSE and have been in the field for 2.5 years
and i am planning to do a carrer change from Systems and Application side to Database side.Even though i am well versed on OS and networking technologies and on IIS i am totally Dumb when it comes to Database(But there are some instances where i have acted as backup DBA when our DBA was on Leave that was on MS-SQL2000 Servers)
Now i wanna step into World of Oracle and planning to achive
OCA status so need help from you friends
Please give your valuable info or guidance so that i will be benifited.
Any suggestions are welcome
Thanks in Advance
netGURU | |
| Margus 2002-11-29, 1:13 am |
| Hey,
There's nothing hard in Oracle - You just need to study hard. I believe if You have the rigth materials it should be possible to learn OCA by your own.
Well, I recommend get a good book from Sybex or Oracle Press (or both) for OCA exams (007 & 031).
You should also try to get a ILT studyguide and STS practice exams <I have found that those 2 work together very effectively for providing groundwork to take exam>.
And then you should also get some real exam questions <like Testking, real-exams etc.> to after hard studytime make sure to have better chances to pass.
Well thats how I study for an exam pretty much (+ instructor-led training)...
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| Thank you Margus can u tell me a book which can really make me comfortable with Oracle i meanWhich doesnt get more into Advanced things,and what is ILT from where shall i get that
Regards
Bhasi | |
| Margus 2002-11-29, 3:24 am |
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Originally posted by bhasi
Thank you Margus can u tell me a book which can really make me comfortable with Oracle i meanWhich doesnt get more into Advanced things,and what is ILT from where shall i get that
Regards
Bhasi
I would suggest reading "Introduction to Oracle9i SQL". Even if You are not going for Oracle it gives You understanding about SQL -which is also used by other databases.
Well You know there are ins and outs in every book. I like OraclePress books because of their "2-minute drills" where everything u need to know about 1 chapter is put to small notes,
And sybex I like because of their "real-world practices" and keyword reviews...
As far as Im concerned - OraclePress books have a lots of shortcomings (compared to ILT) while Sybex books covers almost all material (+ sometimes even more)
I personally use Sybex books for 9i DBA (but I used OraclePress books for OCP Application Developer)
ILT is studyguide issued by Oracle to students who have taken Oracle Instructor Led training courses. |
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