Oracle Page includes tutorials, year 2000, Microsoft Access, ODBC and SQL

Revised Feb 2001 (connecting to isis, sqlnet changes, Oracle to Access)

• Useful information
• Tutorials
• Newsgroup
• Useful links

Useful Information (Top of page)

• Oracle Year 2000 Information (Jan 99)
• Comparing Oracle and Access SQL
• Conference paper on using Access 2 as frontend to Oracle 6 (includes Oracle and Access differences)
• ODBC section (more documents and links)
• SQL*NET V2 and ODBC (and how to keep Forms 3 still working)
• creating a delimitered file from an Oracle table
• Converting from Access to Oracle. Contains a useful Oracle script to rename column_names so that they are useable in Oracle
• Converting from Oracle to Access. Contains a useful Oracle script to create a delimitered file from a table or query

Tutorials (Top of page)

Newsgroup (Top of page)

• There is an Oracle newsgroup sample@gserver.grads.vt.edu that you can join
• To subscribe to Oracle IT Manager, send an e-mail to newsletter editor Michael Kure at michael.kure@oracle.com. Please specify which newsletters you are requesting.

Useful links (Top of page)

• Oracle General FAQ
• Oracle Underground FAQ
• Webcys Archive another link to Webcys Archive
• Events and seminars
• Technical tips
• questions of a severely technical nature can be mailed and might get an answer from Steve Adams, author of O'Reilly's book Oracle8i Internal Services. You can join a mailing list there to receive the answers Steve gives.
• Support
• Oracle university
• Consulting
• Oracle Technology Network
• Metalink Oracle support
• Oracle User Forum and Fan Club very active newsgroup split into many different sections
• http://www.ioug.org/ioug_p/DYNAMIC_PKG.SHOW?V_NAME=DISPLAY_SAMPLE_TIPS International Oracle Users Group Americas
• Oracle Practice has useful sections on Oracle and zope- particularly blobs, fine grain access control