Re: minimalistic oracle installation?

On Apr 2, 6:39 pm, Dirk Diggler <dirkdigg..._at_nowhere.org> wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
> > Dirk Diggler wrote:
> >> hello,
>
> >> my computer is an old fashioned dual PIII 450MHz, and I was wondering
> >> if it is possible to install minimalistic oracle instance which main
> >> purpose would be to serve as dba learning environment.
>
> >> I am not much considered about the speed and efficiency/newest version
> >> of the product in this case, but achieving reasonable usage
> >> parameters/waiting response times would be nice :-).
>
> >> I went through posts @google usenet archive and saw that some people
> >> were running oracle 8i on their PII laptops and similar machines, but
> >> unfortunately there were not much details about how they did it, what
> >> could be switched off or reduced in resources, and to what limit.
>
> >> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions and recommended settings as
> >> well as links to documents, web pages, installation procedures etc. or
> >> personal experience on the subject in question.
>
> >> thanks,
> >> DD
>
> > What operating system and how much RAM?
>
> > My guess is that you either can't or shouldn't.
>
> hello,
>
> the operating system is windows 2003 n-lited version. the machine works
> as a workstation, stable, no problems so far. the amount of physical
> memory is 768MB, average usage varies from 180 to 420MB under heavy
> application usage.
>
> the oracle instance really doesn't have to be fast. it will be OK if the
> response times are a bit longer than expected by oracle idealist
> administrator :-)
>
> what scares me are the hdd space requirements.. the lower they are, the
> better.
>
> thanks,
> DD

Why don't you install the Express Edition (or whatever that thing is called)?

-Ramon Received on Mon Apr 02 2007 - 19:53:29 CDT