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Mladen Gogala (no@email.here.invalid) wrote:
: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:35:39 +0100, Shakespeare wrote:


: > XE is not supported at all.... it's certified, but no support.
: > 
: > Shakespeare

: Yup, you're right. XE is certifiable but not supportable.

On the topic of XE, to run this on Vista use the "Run as administrator"
option for things like the startup scripts, and in various urls replace
"127.0.0.1"  with "localhost" (or perhaps it's the other way round).

To get sqlplusw.exe you can (temporarily) install the
10201_client_win32.zip file, and try simply moving the sqlplusw.exe file
into the equivalent XE directory (same place as sqlplus.exe) - it appears
to need exactly the same support files as sqlplus.exe.

Unfortunately neither XE nor the freely available client appear to give
you the correct versions of sqlplus to get one that doesn't tend to crash
if you select the wrong display options.  (I think a good one comes with
10.2.0.2).

$0.10