Re: Oracle Desktop 6.3x for MS Windows only in Standard Mode????

rujo_at_ulrik.uio.no (Rune J|rgensen) writes:

>Is it correct that this product cannot run under MS Windows 3.1x
>in enhanced mode?
 

>-Rune Jorgensen
> rujo_at_extern.uio.no

I'm not sure of the exact Oracle tools you are using but if they are the MS-DOS versions of SQL*Forms 3.0 and SQL*Menu 5.x then your statement is true. Here's why.

Oracle's DOS tools and DOS RDBMS version 6 make use of an extended memory manager called SQL*PME. This memory manager is incompatible with the memory manager MS-Windows uses while running in Enhanced mode.

There are versions of RUNFORM and RUNMENU that can run under MS-Windows in Enhanced mode but you can only run them against a remote server (not a local copy of the RDBMS for DOS).

If you would like to do development on a single DOS/Windows machine, there is a way to get the DOS RDBMS (version 6) and some Windows tools such as SQL*Plus and the RUNFORM and RUNMENU described above, to run together. It requires quite a bit of memory and you must run Windows in Standard mode (i.e. start Windows with: WIN /S).

If single user devlopment is what you are after, I'd recommend going with the OS/2 operating system and using the OS/2 version of the RDBMS.

If your goal is to use the DOS or Windows tools against a remote oracle database, then you will need the Windows version of SQL*Net for
your particular protocol. Again, SQL*Net under MS-DOS is incompatible with Windows' Enhanced mode.

I know this sounds confusing. If you
have any other specific questions, please ask.

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Sat Oct 08 1994 - 18:33:48 CET