Re: Oracle 9i - is it always this big

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1087962329.712060_at_yasure>...
> C.O.Jones wrote:
>
> > I've been using Oracle 8i until now. I've just downloaded
> > and installed Oracle 9i Personal Edition for Windows XP.
> >
> > Oracle 8i took up less than 2 GB on my hard drive, but
> > my newly installed 9i takes up 23 GB - is this normal? If
> > so, why so large?
> >
> > Most of the space is taken by a single file, 20.2 GB :
> > C:\oracle\ora81\Apache\Apache\logs\error_log. Is this normal?
> > If its wrong, how do I reduce the file to a reasonable size?
>
> 9i should install to 3GB. I have installed it numerous times
> and never once seen a 20.2 GB anything. But I do have one
> question ... what led you to think Oracle 9i Personal Edition
> is compatible with Windows XP?
>
> Once installed ... more than 1/2 of the 3GB can be removed if you
> don't want the demos, help files, templates, etc.

9.2.0.3 sure is buggy... we have hit 6 oracle bugs. 4 were already known. We used 2 one off patches. We had to go to 9.2.0.5... to fix many of them.

We hit everything from ORA-600 errors with RAC and transportable tablespaces, to ora-600 errors with SQL Loader, to an issue with synonyms, to problems with SQL and Unions.

ridiculous. Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 08:17:28 CDT