Learning Oracle Discoverer

Hi, I am interested to learn Oracle Discoverer and need your suggestion on:
- Useful links for tutorial of Oracle Discoverer (I had PDF from OTN)
- Which Oracle products that I should download to setup a test environment, other than RDBMS/Oracle instance. (BTW, is Discoverer an old name? I saw it is classified as "archived" product in OTN).
- How far behind is 4i version?
Many many thanks,
Jill
Edited by: jh77267 on Jan 26, 2010 7:23 AM
Edited by: jh77267 on Jan 26, 2010 7:33 AM

Hi Jill
There are various ways of learning about Oracle Discoverer, ranging from self-help tutorials to full-blown instructor-led courses.
INSTRUCTOR LED
You will find instructor-led courses offered by Oracle University for prices around $600 per day. You can find other companies, mine included, that also offers instructor-led courses.
E-LEARNING
My company also offers E-Learning for a very reasonable price. You'll find more details on my [home page|http://ascbi.com]. I don't make a habit of pushing our offerings in the forum and only mention it when a specific question comes up asking about learnning Discoverer. I don't know of any other company offering this type of training. If I did I would let you know.
FREE CONTENT
There is an abundance of free material on the web. You can find an awful lot here in this forum and by just using Google (I do this a lot). I am the author the official Oracle Press book on Discoverer which you can find on Amazon. I also run a [free blog|http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com] and offer free white papers and presentations here on [my downloads page|http://ascbi.com/downloads.htm].
To be honest with you, if you are looking to learn it more than to just dabble then I strongly recommend you take some formal training. It's the fastest way to get up and running.
Best wishes
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