Originally posted by JiaPei Jen:
Do I have to download Development Tools, Application Server and Oracle Database? Which ones should I choose under those headings?
I have downloaded the Oracle9i 9.2.0.3 JDBC Driver, it took only 5 minutes and I have the ojdbc14_g executable jar file.
Hi JiaPei Jen,
I thought I saw someone post a reply to this the other day. Maybe I'm dreaming. Anyway, this is the link I used to download my Oracle stuff.
Oracle Downloads If you want an entire Oracle solution, then you are going to need
alot of disk space and memory.
The database I have is:
Oracle9i Database Release 9.0.2.1 Enterprise/Standard/Personal Edition for Windows NT/2000/XP
The development tool I have is:
click on the Oracle 9i Development Suite link and choose this: Oracle9iDS Release 2 (9.0.2) 850MB
You will need the Application server, unless you want to try and configure Apache on your own to run the Oracle Forms and Reports.
Those three things
you should get. I hope your internet connection is good. You'll be downloading for awhile.
When Oracle is running on my laptop, it alone takes over 100MB of ram not to mention the Application Server(apache) and the JDeveloper
IDE.
I have set the Oracle services on my computer to run manually, which means i have to start the services before I can use them. This save my system resources when I'm not using Oracle.
You can make a bat file to start and stop the Oracle services when you want to. In the file you can do something like this for each Oracle service:
net start OracleOraHome92HTTPServer ( or whatever yours is called, 'stop' will shutdown the service)
Have fun.