Re: Oracle development versions

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:46:14 +1000
Message-ID: <412a65a5$0$29950$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Alex Filonov wrote:

> "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).

9i, I'd agree with you. 10g? I found it very slow unless it has the 512M it says it wants.

Of course, at a push, I've run both in 256MB.

But I wouldn't recommend it.

IN any event, I was making a recommendation, not making definitive statements about what would or would not work in extremis.

HJR

> 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 - 16:46:14 CDT