Re: Oracle personal edition?

From: Kenneth C Stahl <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:15:57 GMT
Message-ID: <3DAF52BC.B69682@yahoo.com>

"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
>
> There *is* a personal edition (see http://technet.oracle.com ...and the
> downloads link). But I'd strongly advise you not to bother with it. If you
> are serious about learning Oracle then only the Enterprise Edition will do.
> It runs just fine on a 192MB PC with a single hard disk, despite its name.
>
> If a 1.5GB download doesn't sound much like fun, you can buy a trial license
> and a CD set for about US$40.
>

You must be extremely rich if you have the Enterprise edition (legally) on your home system. Trial licenses expire.

The personal edition is fine for learning Oracle and SQL. True, there are some features that are absent from the personal edition, but if someone is just learning Oracle then they probably won't even understand those differences or want to use them. All of the normal ANSI sql for DDL, DCL and DML are implemented. The features that are not implemented are Oracle proprietary extensions. Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 19:15:57 CDT