Centura

[macky]

Alright troops just starting out in the land of programming and was hoping someone out their can help me, was looking for good tips on Centura/SQL.

Whats the best books to go for??

allanmc10@hotmail.com

[dman]

Hi Macky, Welcome to MSFN!

Gee... you picked an obscure product to start learning on. Is there a reason you chose Centura?. I don't know anything about it and a quick google turns up not much. If you are trying to learn database and SQL in general you might be better off with SQLite or MySQL. They are free and there is reams of documentation, tutorials and samples available.

It really doesn't matter which DB you use to learn as the concepts of RDBMS and SQL language are very similar in all db's (oracle, sybase, sql server, DB2, mysql, sqlite, postgresql, etc). Once you learn the concepts it is easy to adapt for specific product.

http://www.sqlite.org/

http://www.mysql.com/

dman

[MrLaforge]

Hi Macky, Welcome to MSFN!

Gee... you picked an obscure product to start learning on. Is there a reason you chose Centura?. I don't know anything about it and a quick google turns up not much. If you are trying to learn database and SQL in general you might be better off with SQLite or MySQL. They are free and there is reams of documentation, tutorials and samples available.

It really doesn't matter which DB you use to learn as the concepts of RDBMS and SQL language are very similar in all db's (oracle, sybase, sql server, DB2, mysql, sqlite, postgresql, etc). Once you learn the concepts it is easy to adapt for specific product.

http://www.sqlite.org/

http://www.mysql.com/

dman

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I agree with d'man. Centura does the job, sure, but it is not the most user friendly program. I doubt you will find much help on the subject as it is hard enough to find help from Gupta period. I guess it depends on if you are learning Centura specifically or if you are comfortable with your SQL, PL/SQL skills. I can only talk from an Oracle point of view but my recommendation, if it is SQL you want to learn, is to stick with SQLPLUS (Oracle) or your equivalent. There is lots of help for Oracle on their documentation CD's. Please don't take offence if you are beond this level, it's just my interpretation of your message