Re: sqldba32 vs. sqldba16 for personal oracle7

In article <NEWTNews.832094596.30743.mpa_at_lakerfan.hunt.inmet.com>, Marius Alazard <mpa_at_hunt.inmet.com> wrote:
>
>I have to create a database for work and we have purchased Personal Oracle7
>for Windows. Since we have not used Oracle as yet, I guess I am the
>unofficial DBA and Security Manager, but as Sgt. Schultz said, "I know
>nothing"! I installed PO7 after installing Win32s as per the user's guide on
>a 486 with 16 megabytes of RAM. All the basic tools (Database Manager, User
>Manager, etc.) work fine. When I start SQL*DBA, I get a "GROWSTUB" error
>followed by a Protection Fault. After the error text boxes have been closed,
>SQL*DBA at least accepts the "exit" command and terminates normally. While
>looking through the orawin\bin directory, I noticed there was sqldba16.exe as
>well as sqldba32.exe. I made an icon which starts sqldba16 instead of
>sqldba32. sqldba16 starts with no errors. I searched the on-line
>documentation but could not find any information about either of the programs.
>
>My 1st question is: Do both of the programs perform all of the same
> functions?

Yes they do. The only difference is that the 32s version can handle larger(> 64k) plsql blocks mostly.
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>My 2nd question is: Is there something I should add to an INI or some other
> file to get sqldba32.exe to run without any errors?
No. It's probably a Win32s error. Win32s is not that stable and is incompatable with many other drivers(especially video). Yuo could try running plain vanilla VGA.
If you can, I highly suggest PO7 for Win95 or WinNT(both should be on www.oracle.com)
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Marius
>
Received on Fri May 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST