Re: Has anyone installed Oracle 8i on NT?

Yup,

It installs fine (eventually after fiddling around with the registry and copying files over half way through installation) but it is very unstable.

I want/have to use 8i/webdb and intermedia for a client's web site and I can't get it going.

We have tried on 3 or 4 differnet machines - the latest in a Dell poweredge with 18G drive, 2G ram, twin 550 Pentium 3's.

Sybase works like a dream on it. (I tried Sybase trial install after 4 months fiddling with Oracle).

Why do I have to manually go into the registry? Why do I have to copy tnsnames.ora half way through the install? Why do I have to change the path variable after product installs? Why is Oracle such a pig?

I just worked out that this Oracle install has cost my company >$200,000 in addition to the licenses and support purchased. I find Oracle support unbelievably bad - they want $1800/day to come and install a product that should install out of the box.

I am amazed, esp. with so much RDBMS experience, that Oracle will not install at all on NT.

• David

Finn Ellebaek Nielsen wrote:

> Perhaps we can help you if you tell us what's going wrong?
>
> Finn
>
> David Rawle <david.rawle_at_channel-a.com> wrote in message
> news:38F1F2DC.E11CB325_at_channel-a.com...
> > I have been trying since September to get this pile to work.
> >
> > Has anyone ever got it working. Please help me if you have
> >
> > I have nearly 15 years RDBMS experience and I cannot get Oracle
> > working...
> >
> > What gives?
> >
> > - David
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channel a, soho, london, uk     | phone:  +44 (0) 20 7287 6544
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