As I understand it 9i is now certified for XP so I'd definitely use that for
the DB. It is a very large download though. I believe people have had
success with 8.1.7 as well. Developer and designer might be worth asking
about in comp.databases.oracle.tools.
HTH
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Gemino" <gemino_at_interia.pl> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:44:26 -0000, "Niall Litchfield"
>
> <cut>
> >First up 8i is not supported on XP. Having said that I would expect it to
be
> >installable. However it doesn't look like you installed 8i at all. It
rather
> >looks as if you have installed Oracle 8. startdb80.exe does not exist in
8i.
> >It does however follow the naming convention for oracle8 executables on
the
> >windows platform.Equally under 8 you wouldget two services
> >OracleService<sid> and OracleStart<sid>. Oracle 8 does not get on at all
> >well with win2k - by extension I would expect it to fail under XP.
> >
> >IIRC you need designer 6i for a win2k/XP platform but I can't swear to
that.
> </cut>
>
> Wow! Thank You for quick response :-) In other words: should I forget
about
> installing 8/8i on XP? Maybe there is a good combo of Oracle products
working on
> XP? EX. Oracle 9i EE & Designer 6i & Developer 6? Could You please suggest
any
> working config?
>
Received on Mon Dec 03 2001 - 08:26:28 CST
