Re: HELP! ORACLE 8I INSTALL QUESTIONS

This looks like it may be too much for someone with no Oracle experience. Hire a consultant for a week and have him step you through everything he does and make copious notes. Register as an Oracle developer (free) so you have access to all of Oracle's documentation. And yes, once you can do everything you wish, and understand it, it will help you to do some DBA work. Of course, there's quite a bit more - PL/SQL, tuning, backup and recovery etc. So doing the work below isn't sufficient to become a DBA, just a help.

Van

"joe" <god_lou_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:IoBY5.15787$1p2.829868_at_typhoon.mn.mediaone.net...
> I have to install 8i on a server on a NOVELL network with windows 98
 clients
> accessing the server. Some workstations have 64 megs of ram and some have
> 32megs of ram and between 2-15 gigabytes of hard drive space.
> Our Professors will be teaching a class using oracle teaching SQL/PLUS and
> the students will need to connect from home, and a computer lab (client).
 We
> will have about 40-60 students logged into server at one time.
>
> Questions are:
> 1. This needs to be web enabled( I'm not sure what that means)so how is
> this done? ...what else in terms of software do I need to load? web
> designer? with ODBC (API) and the server must be up and running 24/7.
> 2. Should I include in the purchase of a server a tape backup etc?
> 3. How much memory, processor speed(dual processors?), hard drive space,
 do
> I need to have this function well and not to slow? What do you recommend?
> 4. What would be the recommended Operating System NT4 or 2000 server or
> advances server etc?
> 5. What do I need on the clients workstations minimum to connect to the
> server in terms of ram and hard drive space? If they are connecting from
> home would the 56K modem connection be to slow to test if their
 application
> works.
> 6. What else needs to be installed to make the connection to the
> database(Web Designer)?
> 7. If I am administering this database do I administer from a client
> workstation or the server itself? Meaning will I have to get a good
 client
> loaded with lots of extra ram and Hard drive space?
>
> The school has all the disks needed, about 98 cd-rom's total to load
> all the applications which I'm sure I don't have to do.
> Eventually they may expand the program. I won't be teaching, just
> administering the database, creating the id's, and maintaining it. Will
> this be good experience in getting a job as an Oracle DBA?
> Your help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Lou
>
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Received on Sun Dec 10 2000 - 16:56:00 CST