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Re: Oracle Personal Edition - need help (newbie)

From: J. Fleck <fleckj__at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:07:44 +0200
Message-ID: <9oiufm$c54$1@scavenger.euro.net>


You are probably right. The comment was unjustified, caused by frustration after spending 2 days trying to re-install. But you do not adress the point that I trying to make.. The Windows 2000 uninstaller does not appear to clean up the registry correctly which makes a re-install very difficult or impossible.
Regards

Jim Fleck
"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:9oitgr$deo9k$1_at_ID-62141.news.dfncis.de...
> The load of shit comment is of course typically made by people not reading
> manuals and just hacking away.
> Hence, it is unjustified.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
>
>
> "J. Fleck" <fleckj__at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:9oipiv$256m$1_at_scavenger.euro.net...
> > A few months ago I downloaded the enterprise version and it worked fine.
I
> > played with it for a few weeks then I stopped. A week ago I really
needed
> it
> > but it no longer worked (a database file was missing). Tried
> re-installing.
> > Only got problems. Uninstalled everything. Downloaded the personal
> edition.
> > Tried to install. Nothing but problems. The uninstaller seems to leave
the
> > all sorts of rubbish in the registry which does not allow you to
> re-install.
> > Good software if you install it alright the first time but otherwise
just
> a
> > load of shit.
> > "sws" <webmaster_at_stevenspage.com> wrote in message
> > news:dO0r7.17219$w62.12230062_at_news1.denver1.co.home.com...
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I've recently downloaded both the Personal Edition of Oracle 8i and
> > > Enterprise Edition Rel 3 for Win2K. Both products give me the same
> > problem:
> > > I can't seem to connect to the database. Then it occurs to me (duh) -
is
> > the
> > > database itself even included with these freeware products, or are we
> only
> > > getting the DBA Studio, SQL+ and other dev tools? I note that Oracle
9i
> > > database is listed by itself as a download at
> > > http://otn.oracle.com/products/. But no mention of an 8i standalone
> > > database.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > --
> > > *****************************************************
> > > Steven W. Sthole : mailto:stevensthole_at_yahoo.com
> > > *****************************************************
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sat Sep 22 2001 - 16:07:44 CDT

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