Re: minimalistic oracle installation?

On Apr 2, 7:53 pm, "Ramon F Herrera" <r..._at_conexus.net> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 6:39 pm, Dirk Diggler <dirkdigg..._at_nowhere.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > DA Morgan wrote:
> > > Dirk Diggler wrote:
> > >> hello,
>
> > >> my computer is an old fashioned dual PIII 450MHz, and I was wondering
> > >> if it is possible to install minimalistic oracle instance which main
> > >> purpose would be to serve as dba learning environment.
>
> > >> I am not much considered about the speed and efficiency/newest version
> > >> of the product in this case, but achieving reasonable usage
> > >> parameters/waiting response times would be nice :-).
>
> > >> I went through posts @google usenet archive and saw that some people
> > >> were running oracle 8i on their PII laptops and similar machines, but
> > >> unfortunately there were not much details about how they did it, what
> > >> could be switched off or reduced in resources, and to what limit.
>
> > >> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions and recommended settings as
> > >> well as links to documents, web pages, installation procedures etc. or
> > >> personal experience on the subject in question.
>
> > >> thanks,
> > >> DD
>
> > > What operating system and how much RAM?
>
> > > My guess is that you either can't or shouldn't.
>
> > hello,
>
> > the operating system is windows 2003 n-lited version. the machine works
> > as a workstation, stable, no problems so far. the amount of physical
> > memory is 768MB, average usage varies from 180 to 420MB under heavy
> > application usage.
>
> > the oracle instance really doesn't have to be fast. it will be OK if the
> > response times are a bit longer than expected by oracle idealist
> > administrator :-)
>
> > what scares me are the hdd space requirements.. the lower they are, the
> > better.
>
> > thanks,
> > DD
>
> Why don't you install the Express Edition (or whatever that thing is
> called)?
>
> -Ramon

Well, as luck would have it, the actual name is "Express Edition".

If you are in a crunch for hardware resources, and really want to conserve hardware, doing as much as possible with little hardware, format the HD and install Linux.

-Ramon Received on Mon Apr 02 2007 - 19:58:06 CDT