I decided to just go with Oracle's step-by-step documentation. I'll quickly browse the introduction and the installation guide, because i'm pretty over that now and then i'll go to the "Building the Database" section. I know that i can easily find SQL tutorials on the web, but i'll count on Oracle to guide me well and see how well their documentation is suited for rookies.
For example -- the Preface points to "Oracle Database SQL Reference", which is exactly what i need, but it is actually a link to an empty page. Which is not nice at all. A search for "Oracle Database SQL Reference" on oracle.com is not very helpful either. But "Search Oracle Documentation" function on the OTN documentation page is completely different -- it finds the 9i SQL reference, although the search site interface is still not too friendly. For example, the PDF is over 1000 pages long, 11MB large and takes forever to load and the HTML version is not very convenienttly indexed. But hey -- i like the hard way. That's what this blog is here for. Stay tuned.
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