Re: Read only database on CDROM
Date: 1995/04/11
Message-ID: <jvgreco.30.0B0BB9C4_at_primenet.com>#1/1
In article <3me499$4te_at_cs3.brookes.ac.uk> 91023629_at_brookes.ac.uk (featherstone paul g) writes:
>From: 91023629_at_brookes.ac.uk (featherstone paul g)
>Subject: Read only database on CDROM
>Date: 11 Apr 1995 15:38:33 +0100
>Summary: Are these possible ?
>Hi,
>our Finance dept wants to archive some data, and I would like to do it on a
>CD ROM. Is it possible to just copy the DB files for Oracle 7.0 onto CD ROM,
>and to have a SQL*Forms front end to access them?
>TIA,
>Paul.
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That would not work, I think, because Oracle does not have DB files, only
tablespaces - you can, however, with Oracle7.x set up read-only tablespaces and
they can be CD-ROM based . See the Server Administrator's manual about this
type of setup.
John Greco
Oracle DBA
Received on Tue Apr 11 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST