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Interesting! Have you messed with UNC naming with Oracle? That would make
things easier for those of us who don't regularly maintain Oracle DBs on
Windows and have to remotely figure out where "D:", "E:", and "F:" point to.
As far as Werner's wonderful site, yes, I agree with you to a point. The problem there is inherent to RedHat and not to Linux in general. Also, the problem seems to be there with versions of RedHat not supported by Oracle (albeit not as bad as trying to install Oracle Server on WinMe).
On the ORACLE_HOME stuff, Oracle specifically says not to set Unix-like environment variables in Windohs, at least for 8.1.7 (see install guide). Not that I'm against breaking an Oracle Corp recommendation (for me, it's parts of OFA), but what problems could it cause? Just GUI-related stuff?
Rich
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:41 AM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: RE: Oracle 10g for Windows
>
>
> > > > * Why can't MS provide a semi-decent code editor.
> > > > Yeah, notepad. Right.
> > >=20
> > > I'd say that wordpad was semi-decent and the vs.net ide was=20
> > > superb(but cost=3D
> > > ly).=3D20
> >=20
> > Wurdpad? Are you kidding???? Perhaps when compared to=20
> > Outlook's builtin
> > editor which can't handle cut'n'paste correctly. And
> thanks, Mark for
> > reminding me about ConText!
>
> I thought the standard was semi-decent :(=20
>
> > > > * The fact that there are still drive letters.
> > >=20
> > > I can't get too excited about drive letters v mount points,=20
> > > but in windows2=3D
> > > 000 upwards you do have a choice.=3D20
> >=20
> > Not in Oracle you don't. Or try installing Windohs on a "D"=20
> > drive and see
> > how far you get before products have major problems. Been=20
> > there, done that.
>
> Well yes it is true that windows will designate a c:\ drive.
> I haven't se=
> en anything that says that Oracle will not work with volumes
> mounted as dir=
> ectories within the file system on win2k and above?=20
>
> > [snip]
> >=20
> > > > * That it took until Win23k for MS to design the system to allow
> > > > different versions of apps to have different versions of DLL's.
> > > > Lesse, we've been doing this on unix for 30 years or so?
> > >=20
> > > That must be why the linux install guides are so easy and=20
> > > never include ref=3D
> > > erences to the right glibc libraries :(=3D20
> >=20
> > Example?
>
> http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml#OracleInstall
ationErrors f=
or example
> =20
> > > * The stupid Oracle home selector that is strictly a GUI.
> >=20
> > I've always ignored it.=3D20
>=20
> How do you switch Oracle Homes on Windohs then?
Set ORACLE_HOME=3D....
Sqlplus / as sysdba ...=20
Niall Litchfield
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