I have a DVD with Oracle 9I R2. Since my company will be making tutorials on Oracle at the second half of this year , I thought I might as well be prepared. I would like a first step to Oracle book. I'm a begginer with programming and therefor I can't really find out what's best for me. If anyone could suggest anything ( weaver heared me ? )

Saw you talking about this on our IRC channel. Sorry man, I am not too familiar with Oracle. I know MySQL and SQL syntax so I could help you out with queries and such. I can't recommend a book that I haven't read or dealt with personally, so I am pretty much useless.

In all honesty, I can recommend learning SQL first or at the same time. The "for Dummies" books are quite nice in this area. I have "SQL for Dummies" and it has treated me very well. I am sure there is a book called "Oracle for Dummies." The great things about these books is they assume you know next to nothing, great for beginners.

Sorry I can't help more.

-Weaver

To my knowledge MySQL is installed in my Fedor installation. Right ?
I'll try to get on with it from Fedora and let you know my progress.But ... where do I find MySQL's ( kind of ) programming enviroment in there. Or is it like I'll vi something to start ?

The name of the program you use to interact with MySQL on the shell level is usually "mysql". Below is a sample of a "mysql" session.

Code:

test@testbox:~$ mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 328 to server version: 3.23.52-log Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> show databases; +------------+ | Database   | +------------+ | bookmarks  | | dbtest     | | friends    | | longhorn   | | mydb       | | mysql      | | pafiledb   | | test       | | tpl_dltest | | webmail    | +------------+ 10 rows in set (0.01 sec) mysql> use bookmarks; Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Database changed mysql> show tables; +---------------------+ | Tables_in_bookmarks | +---------------------+ | bookmarks           | +---------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> describe bookmarks; +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field    | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id       | smallint(6)  |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment | | folder   | varchar(30)  | YES  |     | NULL    |                | | linkname | varchar(50)  | YES  |     | NULL    |                | | linkurl  | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | | approved | char(3)      |      |     | no      |                | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select id, folder, linkname from bookmarks; +----+-------------+----------------------------------------+ | id | folder      | linkname                               | +----+-------------+----------------------------------------+ |  1 | Linux       |                                        | |  2 | Network     |                                        | |  3 | Programming |                                        | |  4 | PHP_Dev     |                                        | |  5 | PHP_Dev     | PHP Builder                            | |  6 | Security    |                                        | |  8 | Security    | comp.os.linux.security FAQ             | |  9 | Wireless    |                                        | | 11 | Wireless    | NoCat WAP Portal System                | | 13 | Programming | IBM Secure Programmer                  | | 14 | Xbox        |                                        | | 15 | Xbox        | xbox-scene                             | | 16 | Cracking    |                                        | | 17 | Cracking    | MegaGames Cracking Thread              | | 18 | Cracking    | The Krobar Collection                  | | 19 | Linux       | DOS Emulation under Linux              | | 20 | Windows     |                                        | | 21 | Windows     | Removing MSN Messenger from Windows XP | | 22 | GAMAGE      |                                        | | 23 | GAMAGE      | Game Music PC NES SNES                 | | 24 | Network     | MUTE anonymous p2p (ants)              | | 25 |             | Primary Colors                         | | 26 | Network     | Mozilla Firebird FAQ (Java Fix, etc.)  | +----+-------------+----------------------------------------+ 23 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql>

-Weaver

Thanx a lot man. I'll let you know how I'm getting on with it.