I am new to Flex 3/4 and wish to discover what is involved in creating an application in Flex that runs off an Oracle 10g database to both retrieve/modify data from, with Flex.
Basically I would like to know how to connect Flex to an Oracle database to perform database transactions like updates/deletes/inserts.
Adobe Flex 3 Help - About data access:
The Flex SDK contains features for accessing server-side data. Flex data access components are based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). These components use remote procedure calls to interact with server environments, such as PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, and Microsoft ASP.NET, to provide data to Flex applications and send data to back-end data sources.
Personally I prefer Java with the BlazeDS/Spring/Hibernate stack. For tutorials look at the Adobe Developer Connection: