Re: Newbie: couple of questions?

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"Rutger" <xyz.miklo_22_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:99nhfm$ptd$1_at_nereid.worldonline.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I'm running oracle 7.3.4 on hp-ux 11.00, I know version 7 of oracle is
> really old but I have no choice (It's a project for school, only this is
> what they got). I have to make a database that contains information about
> 100 personal computers (ip-adres, configuration, diskusage, installed
> software, troubleshouting, etc, etc...). This database will be linked to
> webpage (running on the same hp-ux server) so they can use/control/manage
 it
> by intranet using their hp terminals. The tools I'm using are Oracle
> Designer 6i and Oracle Forms & Reports 6i both under windows NT, there
 were
> no hp-ux versions.
>
> the (maybe stupid) questions:
>
>
> -How big should I make the tablespace?

Depends. How much data do you anticipate putting in it? There are table-sizing guidelines in the Oracle documentation. Depends on the usage you anticiapte the database will get, lots of things really.

> -Where do I start, first make the form under windows NT and run it under
> hp-ux and then link it to a webpage? if so, how do I run the form on
 hp-ux?
> How do I link the database to a webpage?

Given that you appear to be wanting to do as much of this as possibly over the web, why not use an HTML interface (ie. forget Designer/Forms/Reports etc) to populate/query the database, driven by something like Perl? It seems like a bit of a sledgehammer/nut interface as it is...

Also, you'll no doubt want to automatically update disk usage stats etc, so this is another reason why Perl (and the whole command-line ethos) should be embraced at the design stage. IMHO.

> Thanx anyway
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rutger
Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 09:29:37 CST