Using Oralce with Unix (AIX)

My firm have now started to give me exposure to administering the 9i database using Unix (AIX).
I have no prior understanding and I know this will take time.
I need to get up to speed.. I have 9i installed on my machine at home - can I somehow download AIX at home and simply practice there?
Yes, its a newb question!
Thanks.
DA

Dan,
As someone said before in an earlier posting, if you are just trying to get to know Oracle then you can pretty much do everything using any version of Oracle it could be Windows or Unix or Linux. The differences come into play for the setup and other similar things you have to do from a OS command line. However, if you are looking to use sqlplus to access the database and just concentrating on commands in sql then you don't need to worry about Unix vs Windows vs Linux so much.
You can connect to any database that you have network connectivity to and that has the correct PORTs open. However, this will take some setup to accomplish.
I would advise working through the 2-Day DBA guide that you can find here:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14196.pdf
I would also look at the Oracle By Examples found here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/10gr2_2day_dba/index.html
which compliments the other guide.
The reason that sqlplus can not be found is that it is not in your PATH. The easiest way I have found to setup an environment on a Unix system, is basically find someone's who's environment works (usually oracle) and then go through their .profile and .kshrc files and see what they are calling. Usually they reset their PATH variable at some point to include the Oracle bin directory.
Someone in your organization should have the knowledge to setup the system to access sqlplus and other things you need. Again, if I had to do it myself I take a few hours to understand how an account like (oracle) is setup and try to set mine up similarly if not exactly the same.
Regards
Tim
Good Luck, I know it is tough when you are just begining.

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