Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "BD" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Setting up Oracle 10g & Oracle Spatial / MapViewer for learning single PC Date: 3 Mar 2006 16:07:20 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1141430840.558656.36730@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: <1141341528.204061.241350@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.42.80.225 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1141430845 24996 127.0.0.1 (4 Mar 2006 00:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:07:25 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1141341528.204061.241350@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.42.80.225; posting-account=gnkSUQ0AAABiGyjAs419xEeX2H7Y08KK Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:262764 Don't let Sybrand's comments discourage you; by all indications he knows Oracle inside and out; but sadly he tends to be a little short with questions that are below a certain level of base understanding. Shame that technical expertise and PR skills don't always go hand in hand. Oh well. Hopefully someone can provide some constructive comments to your questions; I certainly would if I could, but I am of limited usefulness: 10g _can_ be installed on a PC, given the requisite RAM and disk requirements. As always, the more RAM the better - especially if you want to put an app server and a database on the same machine. I'd try to max out the RAM for the machine - 2GB would be a healthy setup. I strongly doubt that you'll have problems getting an application to run on the same machine as the db, but I have not seen that specific combination so I can't speak from direct experience. But there really is no reason to think it cannot be done. BD.