CSC452 Database Programming

I am in Database Programming class which at DePaul is CSC452.  The class is a little frustrating, because of the following:

Currently:	Oracle released 10g over a year ago and no longer offers any other version for download
My last course:	My last course (CSC454) was database administration which we used 10g
CSC452:	Our textbook is version 9.1 (which is the 2nd most recent version - so that is not bad as far as trying to find info). The server that we must use is located at hawk.depaul.edu and that runs version 8.

What a mess, you try to run code and of course it is not yet supported.  How frustrating, anyway, till next time… Later!!