Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.246.MISMATCH!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!r8g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: joel garry Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 32 bit Oracle RDBMS on 64 bit OS? Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <4d56f967-593e-4121-bf2c-ca05a3769683@l4g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <0a6cb3dc-8dd7-489a-9b4c-d51cf0a39d23@x11g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.58.150.28 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1315601196 13980 127.0.0.1 (9 Sep 2011 20:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 20:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r8g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.58.150.28; posting-account=tpQovAkAAABNoH5bwsZAiff2L0zxGwdv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110614 Firefox/3.6.18 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.cambrium.nl On Sep 9, 11:24=A0am, ddf wrote: > On Sep 9, 9:17=A0am, joel garry wrote: > > > > > On Sep 8, 3:00=A0pm, Dan wrote: > > > > I see from the Oracle certification matrix that they do not certify > > > running a 32-bit installation of Oracle database against a 64 bit > > > operating system. =A0 But does anyone know whether this can be done, > > > would it/could it work? =A0I was thinking about running 32 bit 10g > > > standard edition on a 64 bit Windows OS (Windows8). > > > > Does anyone have any knowledge on this? > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > When I was poking around the intertubes a month ago trying to decide > > whether to go with XE 11g beta, I found posts that said things like > > "the trick to running XE on 2008 is to right click on the installer > > exe and set it to run under 2003 compatibility mode, and run as > > administrator. " > > > So I don't know, but poke about. =A0I wound up deciding to make the > > admins give me a 32 bit OS and put the beta on it. =A0Now I'm going to > > upgrade. =A0As of yesterday, I didn't see a 64 bit version, which was > > supposed to be released with the production version, but I didn't look > > too hard. > > > You might look into running a linux VM under your desired OS, I'd > > guess you'll find all sorts of info about that. > > > jg > > -- > > @home.com is bogus.http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/09/sap-t= o-settle-copyrigh... > > 11g XE is available for download in 64-bit version for Linux. > > David Fitzjarrell Good to know. I neglected to specify our standard is similar to OP, with Hyper-V, but I can justify older stuff for the few XE's for now. Fortunately, I'm special with Itanium hp-ux Oracle for the ERP. Unfortunately, Oracle corp. has decided that would make me the bastard red-headed stepchild, (with apologies to bastard red-headed stepchildren). I'm grateful to have a boring job in interesting times. (Sleepy after the Fun With Power last night, as some idiot brings down a big chunk of the western power grid while installing electrical grid monitoring. So much for negative instrumentation cost.) jg -- @home.com is bogus. =93All we need is data and a problem to solve=94 - Albert Lin http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/08/at-ucsd-internet-forum-gee-w= hiz-meets-realists/