Re: Oracle development versions

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<41299991$0$29950$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Guillermo Uriarte wrote:
>
> > Anybody knows if there is something like the MSDE for the Oracle
> > database server?
> >
> > I want to learn Oracle, but it seems there are at least three CDs to
> > install and my PC is a bit old.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
> 10g is the latest version, and comes on just one CD.
>
> There is a companion CD which contains some things you might find of use,
> but it's not compulsory.
>
> Even 9i only took 3 CDs because the sample databases they supplied as part
> of the release were included on them: but you didn't have to use any of
> them.
>
> It doesn't matter too much how old your PC is, as long as it has plenty of
> memory (512MB minimum) and 4 or 5GB of free disk space.
>

Both 9i and 10g work in 384M (Compaq Presario, Linux RH 7.3 upgraded to Fedora Core 2).
Performance is quite decent. Didn't try to run both at the same time though. Did try to run 9.2 and 9.0, it worked OK.

> Regards
> HJR
Received on Mon Aug 23 2004 - 12:16:51 CDT