Re: Q: Config info for Oracle on PC

asc_at_cix.compulink.co.uk ("Tony Scott") writes:

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>you'll be OK. However, you will find that if you are not to die of
>boredom, you had better get quite a fast PC. On a 386/25 SX a 120K form
>would take over 3 mins to save and nearly 1 1/2 to generate i.e. nearly 5
>mins every time. That's a hell of a long time if you've just made a tiny
>change. A 486/66 DX with SCSI disk cut this by nearly a third. You will
   

      I've gotten in to the habit of just Loading the .inp file
      and relying on generating to write a new .inp.  Loading takes
      a fraction of the time Openning from the database takes.

>also need the 486 if you want to use Windows (in my case for Oracle Card,
>but also, by report, for CDE tools).
 

         Just a note:  The CDE tools only run against Oracle 7
         databases.  Oracle 7 does not run on MS-DOS.  If you
         want to do CDE development (Forms 4, Reports 2, etc.)
         you'll most likely want to switch to OS/2 or SCO
         Unix.

>To be safe you need to save from time to time (some sites only generate)
>because if you get a protection exception (say for some other reason, not
>the weevil) of a crash while generating, you are a dead duck. Your old
>and new versions are gone. Unfortunately, this can take three times as
>long as generating (and you still have to generate).

             Agreed.  When you start seeing a block of Hex digits
             in the upper left hand corner of the screen, it's
             lights out!    :(

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_pegasus.rutgers.edu Received on Fri Mar 04 1994 - 03:54:43 CET