Re: Personal Oracle for Win98 Disaster

Hi,

Perhaps there may be something wrong with my hardware. I can neither fully agree nor disagree with that possibility. This is a Dell Optiplex Gx110. I am back to working again but what a nightmare it was. whew!!!

Needless to say, I am little leery of installing Personal Oracle for Win98. BUT...I *need* to learn DB stuff. Fortunately, I have JBuilder5 Enterprise and have decided to play with the InterBase that comes with it. Originally I was hoping to stay with Oracle all the way.

I also downloaded mySQL. I haven't installed it yet.

If I can ask you a favour...given that I have access to Win98 and Win2000 and own JBuilder5 Enterprise, which Database would you recommend for a beginner?

TIA Regards
Mark

Sybrand Bakker wrote:
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> Your experience is atypical, and you must have had a screwed up harddrive
> before you started installing it.
> Do you check your harddrive regularly.
> I believe both your concern and your warning are justified for *every* piece
> of software you install, not for Oracle alone.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 14:31:52 CDT