Re: Oracle personal edition?

Uh huh. Another one who doesn't want to learn it properly.

Fair enough.

HJR "Cynic" <asdf> wrote in message news:uqungda5rcn1aa_at_corp.supernews.com...
> Thanks, all. Geez, I started quite the little fight.
> Anyway, personal edition is exactly what I needed.
>
> "Kenneth C Stahl" <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3DAF52BC.B69682_at_yahoo.com...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> > >
> > > There *is* a personal edition (see http://technet.oracle.com ...and
the
> > > downloads link). But I'd strongly advise you not to bother with it. If
> you
> > > are serious about learning Oracle then only the Enterprise Edition
will
> do.
> > > It runs just fine on a 192MB PC with a single hard disk, despite its
> name.
> > >
> > > If a 1.5GB download doesn't sound much like fun, you can buy a trial
> license
> > > and a CD set for about US$40.
> > >
> >
> > You must be extremely rich if you have the Enterprise edition (legally)
on
> your
> > home system. Trial licenses expire.
> >
> > The personal edition is fine for learning Oracle and SQL. True, there
are
> some
> > features that are absent from the personal edition, but if someone is
just
> > learning Oracle then they probably won't even understand those
differences
> or
> > want to use them. All of the normal ANSI sql for DDL, DCL and DML are
> > implemented. The features that are not implemented are Oracle
proprietary
> > extensions.
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 13:27:30 CEST