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Re: Oracle client for Mac

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:45:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1112629318.818911@yasure>


Ronald Rood wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 02:14:20 +0200, DA Morgan wrote
> (in article <1112573442.634953_at_yasure>):
>
>

>>Stroker and I will be submitting a white paper to Oracle Magazine next
>>week that should be far more detailed. I will post an announcement when
>>I know where it has been published.

>
>
> Hi Daniel,
> for me the oracle installation manuals were quite good. Using the manual I
> could perform each and every task with success. What is missing is a way to
> view the sga definition, something like ipcs -bom. This is a macos issue but
> did you find a way to check the sga ?
> Most problems I encountered had to do with a polluted java environment, the
> existence of old jdbc drivers etc. An other minor problem was caused by the
> fact that the graphical tools - like the installer - are not using X11. The
> runInstaller script does check the X environment but is not using it. This
> can be solved by using vnc but a little note in the documentation could have
> saved quite a few hours.
>
> With kind regards / met vriendelijke groeten,
> Ronald
>
> http://ronr.nl/unix-dba
> http://homepage.mac.com/ik_zelf/oracle

That's because you understand the Mac. For most people, I suspect, Oracle's instructions would carve a straight line between where they are and extreme frustration.

Send me an email off-line and I will try to get you a solution.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 10:45:33 CDT

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