FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

Akadia AG - - Monthly tips and Oracle installation guides.

Allexperts Oracle Q&A - - Volunteer experts answer all your detailed one-on-one questions about Oracle for free.

Apps DBA - - Oracle Applications DBA information including installation, technical architecture, and monitoring tools.

Arkansas University - - Help for users of SCT Banner, Oracle, and UNIX.

Brian Cryer - - Collection of Oracle notes, covering error codes, troubleshooting and tuning.

Database Specialists - - Scripts, presentations, newsletters and a tuning tool.

DBA Scripts from Steven Hauser - - DBA scripts and articles on Informix, Oracle and ERP software such as SAP, Baan and Peoplesoft.

DBAzine - - Technical articles covering database management and administration, from a variety of authors.

Denis Klaroc - - Oracle on linux installation guides, tip.

Experts-exchange - - Community site with questions and answers to Oracle issues.

G & J Piper - - FAQs covering both DBA and Financial issues.

Gints Plivna - - Articles about Oracle by Gints Plivn.

Hervé Deschamps - - Technical articles and white papers.

Hotsos - - Oracle tuning software, education, and consultancy services. Library articles require registration.

Implementing Oracle RAC using Linux NBD - - How to setup an Oracle Real Application Cluster without using a shared disk subsystem. A software solution of RAC implementation with standard Linux Network Block Devices (NBD).

An Introduction to Oracle - - Introductory Tutorials including SQL, PL/SQL, the data dictionary and Java. (in PDF and HTML.

Jeff Hunter - - DBA, development, tips and scripts.

Jonathan Gennick - - Published and unpublished articles and some presentations by Jonathan Gennick.

Maggie Shapland - - Oracle installation tips, also covers ODBC, SQL and MS Access.

Material Dreams - - Tools and Scripts for the Oracle DBA and Developer.

Monash University - - A page of basic Oracle tips aimed at IT staff.

Morgan's Library - - Oracle documentation from Daniel Morgan, Puget Sound Oracle Users Group.

The OakTable Network - - An informal organisation with news and articles covering the administration and development of Oracle based system.

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) - - Online Documentation Librar.

Oracle Database 9i Release 2 (9.2) - - Online Documentation Librar.

Oracle Documentation - - Manuals for all Oracle software (including older versions.

Oracle Documentation Search (Tahiti) - - Search engine for the Official Oracle documentation.

Oracle FAQ - - An independent source of answers covering the software giant and its products.

Oracle Financials - - Implementation of the 'Financials' application.

Oracle on Apple OS X - - How to install Oracle on OS X.

Oracle Technology Network - - Documentation, tips and community help for all Oracle products.

The Oracle Users Co-operative FAQ - - Answers to RDBMS related issues from the newsgroup comp.databases.oracle.serve.

Oracle's Linux Technology Center - - Technical advice and resources for Oracle support for Linux - including software downloads, sample code, installation guides, and discussion forums.

Ora-Code - - Every Oracle error message, e.g. ora-01555 = snapshot too old.

Ora-Error - - Oracle error message search facility.

Osmosis Latina - - Tutorials based around the Oracle Certified Professional tests for Oracle 8i Development and Configuration.

PL/SQL Tutorial - - A basic introduction to PL/SQL programming.

SQL Tutorial - - A basic introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL).

SS64.com - - Command line reference for Oracle, SQL Server, Windows and bash. Includes data dictionary and database commands.

TechTarget - - Oracle and PL/SQL tips, tutorials, and scripts for DBAs and developers.

Werner's Linux Page - - Installation guides for Oracle running under Red Hat Linux.

Yong Huang - - Articles about Oracle plus a Windows version of oerr.