Oracle Resources
There seems to be a shortage of good Oracle websites, perhaps taking a lead from Oracle’s own poor effort. Nevertheless, here are a few to get you started:
- Oracle
- Ill-organised, full of marketing-speak, prone to mysterious 404 errors, most useful content hidden behind (free) registration, there’s a lot not to like about this site. Still, it is the primary source for information about the Oracle database, good luck finding it.
- Ask Tom
- Technical question-and-answer series from in-house Oracle expert Tom Kyte. Sadly, he seems to have stopped answering questions in 2003, but there’s still a lot of useful tips to be found there.
- Oracle FAQ
- Another collection of questions and answers accumulated over several years. Some sections, the Forms one for example, don’t seem to have been added to for a long time. Others are more useful.
- OracleDBA.co.uk
- Yet more Oracle tips! This one’s a collection of snippets by Connor McDonald, useful to developer and DBA alike.
- Oracle Developer
- Another independently produced collection of Oracle stuff, by another Oracle contractor Adrian Billington.
- Toad
- Quest Software’s excellent development tool for Oracle puts a GUI front end on all sorts of database creation, maintenance and querying tasks as well as providing a rich editor for coding in. Not cheap, but worth every penny.
- Steven Feuerstein
- Writer of the best-selling Oracle PL/SQL Programming, This is Steven’s personal site. Links to a few PL/SQL programming goodies as well as some of the author’s left-leaning political causes.
- Tek-Tips Forums
- Not an exclusively Oracle site, but a forum for getting technical questions answered in a wide range of fields. You are expected to answer some questions yourself if you want to use this forum long-term. Be warned, it can become quite addictive…