Re: OracleXE is garbage

reqfoo wrote:
> Once upon a time I used PostgreSQL and was happy. Then one day my
> employer told me that we were all to use OracleXE while working on the
> big new project. Since then I've come to hate Oracle.
>
> Why is the installation so huge?

It installed in minutes on my ThinkPad w/ 2GB RAM.

Perhaps you should be cursing that boat anchor you call a workstation. How much RAM?
What CPU?
Hard disk space is likely not relevant to your issue.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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