Can this be configured to Oracle Database? First time user please.

yes you're absolutely correct

Let me go through the links and try setting it up. By the way, can I host with any ISP provider or should I choose only those that are on nopCommerce?

the hosting companies that are mentioned by the nopCommerce are recommended hosting companies by nopCommerce team

there is no compulsion that you have to go with these companies, You can choose your hosting company

But remember in order to RUN NopCommerce properly, choose that hosting company that provides FULL Trust Level, as many features in nopCommerce requires Full Trust Level and they won't work in Medium Trust

Just to let you know Don't go with GoDaddy, it doesn't provide Full Trust Level and many people face problems with this hosting company

Few hosting companies with full trust level are:

http://www.softsyshosting.com/

http://www.fortehosting.com/


http://www.webhost4life.com/

http://www.appliedi.net/

I would point out that full trust is not a prerequisite. The features that do not work in medium trust (e.g. import from excel) are not paramount - most features DO work in medium trust.

I second avoiding use of GoDaddy.

These are the features that doesn't work in Medium Trust Level

# Export/Import customers (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
# Export/Import products (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
# Export orders (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
# PDF Order receipts - doesn't work in medium trust

pvsaig949 wrote:

nopCommerce implements the n-tier architecture and in the solution you can find a  project "Nop.DataAccess", this assembly describes an abstraction of Data Access Layer.

To use Oracle Database(My SQL database, any other database) as the data source you should implement a data access abstraction for the Oracle.