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To: Hubert Few who wrote (8917)	11/24/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Adelantado	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

If MSFT buys Oracle for $16B, that should balance the AOL/Netscape/sun merger. it would make us millonaires too.:) Joe

To: Hubert Few who wrote (8917)	11/25/1998 9:02:00 AM
From: Michael Olin	Respond to of 19080

If you've been working with Sybase, I don't think you're going to be in over your head. The basic concepts are pretty much the same. The people I've worked with who have made the transition from Sybase to Oracle have found the usual mix of issues. There are things that were easy to do in Sybase that were not so intuitive in Oracle, and things they were able to do in Oracle that they never could get done with Sybase (please don't ask me for a comparative feature list!). Getting the PO8 database up and running is a good place to start. There is a demo database that Oracle includes. It is simple Employee-Department stuff, but there is enough data to play around with. Many of the Oracle docs and third-party books about Oracle base their examples on this set of data (the infamous SCOTT/TIGER schema). You might want to check out some of the Oracle Press books at osborne.com I haven't read the "Oracle8 Beginners Guide", but I know both of the authors and they do know their stuff. Best of luck and welcome to LarryLand! -Michael