Re: Learning Oracle with a "normal" computer

Victor Hernandez wrote:

> Hi everybody.
>
> I am a guy from El Salvador (Central America) and I want to learn
> Oracle. My aim is learning only, I don´t want to put anything in
> production.
>
> I have a "normal" computer here in El Salvador. 256 Mb Ram memory, 2
> Gb virtual memory, Windows XP Pro. I have downloaded Oracle 10g from
> the Oracle website and it is so SLOW. Creating a table lasts half an
> hour and I get desperated.
>
> I know my machine is not great but I can´t afford another one. I have
> looked for a trial version of Oracle Personal Edition but it doesn´t
> exist at the Oracle website.
>
> So how can I learn Oracle with my humble machine?. (Spending half an
> hour to create a table is not an option).
>
> Regards,
>
> Finsals Collons

Buy another 256MB of RAM.

Though I have to say that half an hour for a create table statement sounds like something else is terribly wrong. A second or two at most on even the slowest machines, I would have thought.

Incidentally, why have you set your Windows virtual memory settings to 2GB? It is supposed to be a maximum of about twice your physical RAM... hence, for you, it should be 512MB. Or, if you upgrade your RAM, perhaps 1GB. It is the fact that not even your Windows is configured properly that makes me doubt that you are easily going to get Oracle of whatever version working particularly well.

Regards
HJR Received on Fri Nov 12 2004 - 14:39:19 CST