Re: Which version of Oracle for a demo on a notebook?

Rick Denoire wrote:

> Yes but if it is possible to make the installation much more robust by
> waiving of innecessary features, I would try it.
>
> And what is Oracle 9i Lite for? (I really don't know what is "light"
> here).

Oracle9i Lite seems to be specifically designed as a sync'able data store that can interact with Java applications. It is not a trimmed version of the 9i database. I consider it a remote set of tables plus the smarts to allow bidirectional replication. IMHO not applicable here.

Others have said it, and I concur - use the production version if possible but trim the SGA. If production is Enterprise, you can use Personal because AFAIK that is supposed to be the 1-developer-license version of Enterprise. If production uses enterprise but you know you are not using any enterprise specific features (see OTN's Oracle9i Family document) feel free to drop to standard - all the tests I've done leave me confident that standard is a pure subset to enterprise. Received on Mon Apr 28 2003 - 16:35:07 CDT