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Thanks, all. Geez, I started quite the little fight.
Anyway, personal edition is exactly what I needed.
"Kenneth C Stahl" <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > There *is* a personal edition (see http://technet.oracle.com ...and the
> > downloads link). But I'd strongly advise you not to bother with it. If
you
> > are serious about learning Oracle then only the Enterprise Edition will
do.
> > It runs just fine on a 192MB PC with a single hard disk, despite its
name.
> >
> > If a 1.5GB download doesn't sound much like fun, you can buy a trial
license
> > and a CD set for about US$40.
> >
>
> You must be extremely rich if you have the Enterprise edition (legally) on
your
> home system. Trial licenses expire.
>
> The personal edition is fine for learning Oracle and SQL. True, there are
some
> features that are absent from the personal edition, but if someone is just
> learning Oracle then they probably won't even understand those differences
or
> want to use them. All of the normal ANSI sql for DDL, DCL and DML are
> implemented. The features that are not implemented are Oracle proprietary
> extensions.
Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 20:04:19 CDT