Re: Oracle 8i blues

"Harry" <a_at_abc.com> wrote in message
news:49slrtk0s91u56mngdktt93rbaonbg78ga_at_4ax.com...
> Using a newly installed Oracle 8i standard edition on Win 2000 Pro
>
> As a developer I don't need all the fancy memory/disk hungry flashy things
 that seem to get
> installed. All I want is to create a small database, add tablespaces to it
 for each different
> application that I develop & add/edit/delete ordinary records from it
>
> From Oracle 7.3.4 this seems to be a massive step, no longer can I
>
> Find ORAINST.EXE in install/uninstall stuff - can't see anything on the
 menus that remotely sound
> like it will do this - for instance how would I uninstall Oracle objects
 for OLE?
>
> Using the create database wizard I tried to setup a small database of 50
 megs, using the custom part
> I went through taking the default setting except for the DB size bit - I
 had to allow nearly 700
> megs in the end just to create this?
>
> I'm sorry to ask these probaby very stupid & obvious questions but I
 haven't got the time to wade
> through all the docs
>
> So my questions are -
>
> How to create a very small db with a small rollback segment & no frills -
 not even backup!
>
> How do I install/uninstall stuff?
Oracle Universal Installer ...
is Java based

>
> Many thanks
>
> harry
Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 13:37:49 CEST