> What part of the valley do you live in?
> I'm an Oracle DBA and can probably help you.
> I haven't installed 9i on linux before (still running 8.1.7), but it
> sounds like you got that far already (good!).
I am in North Scottsdale. Near the hospital. This is actually my first attempt 
at using Oracle on Linux, so yes I am making progress. I am currently taking 
Oracle at SCC but I am using a winXP box, and I don't want to any more. 
>
> Beyond that, Oracle is one huge learning curve (but don't let that
> discourage you).  Although there are a lot things to need to know to make
> a database that works well (tuning is more of an art than a science), the
> general database that is installed out of the box is good enough to learn
> from.
My emphasis in school is Networking and Database however I want to know it 
best on a *nix platform as the future is in *nix. I have taken all of my 
programming courses, but I will take some more c++ as it was my favorite.
I too Access last semester and although it is a joke of a dbase it is very 
useful to me now as I can visualize the dbase although I am using nothing 
more than command line in sqlplus.
>
> Do you just need the client software or do you actually need to play with
> a local database?
 The dbase I need to connect to is at school, so I do have to config the 
tnsname.. So I guess the answer is just the client although I would prefer to 
install everything, after all I did get it free from the OTN. 
>
> JD
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