Re: Windows and Oracle access.

busch1_at_llnl.gov (Jeff Busch) writes:

>Although Oracle claims MSDOS version 6.0A works with Windows, it is very primitive.
>I was not able to run it with Windows on my computer because Oracle wouldn't run
>if Windows was running enhanced mode (my graphics card requires this). Now I

      I think you need to be clear about what "Running Oracle" is. Given 
      enough RAM, you can load the RDBMS (Not the Tools like SQL*Forms) and
      then run Windows on top.  As you say, communication with the single
      user version of Oracle is not possible under Windows Enhanced mode
      due to conflicts with Oracle's memory manager, SQLPME.

      I have no problems loading the RDBMS and then running Windows in
      Standard mode and going against the database with Q+E, Oracle*Card
      and embedded SQL in Windows C programs.  If I had even more RAM
      I would be able to run SQL*Forms, Reportwriter etc. in a DOS
      session, but for now the Windows "runform" seems to work OK.

>have to exit Windows to run MS-DOS Oracle. I have also found this version of
>Oracle to be somewhat unreliable (crashes, unexplained PL/SQL errors).

      Perhaps you don't have enough RAM?  Or you may not have set up Oracle
      properly.



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>Jeff Busch             Internet busch1_at_llnl.gov

Rich Holowczak holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Rutgers University
Ph.D. Computers and Information Systems Program "Availability of Distributed Databases During Network Partitioning"

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