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Old September 13th, 2005, 09:53 PM
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I've been using MySQL for the past two years and have been considering picking up Oracle as a side project. Will it be hard for someone coming from a MySQL end? I've had a friend complain about how it is totally ***-backwards especially if you want something to auto-increment, and he mentioned things about stored procedures....

I briefly viewed Oracles website and there are different versions? I saw something about version 8,9, and now 10g? What would be the best to install and learn? Is it worth it to try and get certified?
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Old September 14th, 2005, 02:38 AM
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Oracle is the leader in database market, so it's certainly worth to know it and possibly be certified.
It has a lot more features than MySQL and this makes the "migration" a bit harder.
The latest version is 10g, so go with it.
Note that autoincrement fields are less than optimal and Oracle (and Firebird and PostgreSQL) uses sequences and triggers to substitute them with greater control.
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im still confused what oracle is....

so its not a query language like SQL? cause it looks as if SQL is used with oracle which confuses me even more... i thought it was just another query syntax....
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