Re: Database on CD-ROM?

From: Prabhakar Kandashamy [e] <prabha_at_sickbay.az05.bull.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 22:43:02 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Oct07.224302.6738_at_catfish.az05.bull.com>


In article <89B3524.03890014D0.uuout_at_compudata.com>, barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com (BARRY ROOMBERG) writes:
> -> My gut reaction to this question is that of course it's possible, but
> -> I'd rather ask before we shell out several thousand dollars to get a
> -> CD-ROM writer.
>
> Doubt it. If there is no writable tablespaces, where will the
> sort overflow tmp tables be stored?

In 7.1 Oracle, you can make a tablepsace read-only, and point the datafile to the CD-ROM datafile. I have no idea where to look for the read-only tablespace in 7.0.

Prabhakar Received on Fri Oct 07 1994 - 23:43:02 CET

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