Re: Oracle 8 evaluation cd FREE!

Have you ever used Oracle before? Are you familiar with SQL*Net? If you have not, I would recommend you to read the manual. "The concepts guide" is a very good book.

Feel free to e-mail me if you need any help.

Murali

Michael R. Bevis wrote in message <6nc1b3$khp$1_at_comet3.magicnet.net>...
>Hi
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>After four attempts at getting an Oracle 8 evaluation cd to install
>and do something right in terms of a jdbc/odbc evaluation effort
>I'm giving up.
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>If anybody wants this disk I'll pay the postage to mail it to you.
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>Questions:
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>1. Over half a gig just to unzip the cd? Are they serious?
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>2. Just what does NET8 do? I never got it to run, every attempt
>resulted in a runaway java process, 100% cpu for as long as you felt
>like waiting.
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>3. Do we have to have umpteen different names for everything? Could
>they PLEASE call a database a database at some point!
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>4. In terms of footprint, in my opinion, we're talking a rock the size
>of Texas.
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>I'll shut up now, bye.
>
>Mike
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>PS: Oracle Lite won't run under Jmapi either, in case anybody's wondering.
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Received on Wed Jul 01 1998 - 03:23:03 CDT