Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: karl________@hotmail.com (karl) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: a newbie desperately need help on oracle server installation Date: 4 Apr 2002 11:43:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 10 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.17.131.60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1017949403 8325 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2002 19:43:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 2002 19:43:23 GMT Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:142075 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:41:07 MST (news.easynews.com) hello, all, i am a very-very-new-newbie to oracle world, and is prepraing for certificate exam. i wonder whether i can install oracle server and client app in one same machine. does it intrigue the potential of collapse? if your gurus endorse installing them on the same machine, could anyone let me know (or refer me to documents on) how to do it? i need very very basic information on that issue, since i am a very-very-new-newbie. now allow for my stupidity in asking this final question: are oracle server and client free for downloading? karl