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>hi everybody!
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>does anybody know where and how a trial version of the oracle-db is available?
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>we are forced to write an application using oracle as backend and we don't have any experience using this db therefore we'd like to take a look at it.
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>is the oracle-sql-syntax different from ms-sql-syntax, any dialects?
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>thanks for help and advice