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Post #21,458
by nking
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12/14/01 1:51:08 AM
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New Oracle freebies
Yes they do, I joined up and am downloading it now. The 8i Enterprise for Windows NT/2000 is about 600M. The 9i is three 600M download files. Yikes! For development only but it is a big monster download!

I'll try to get the Linux version after the NT/2000 version.

Thanks! After I install them and get them working, I'll try to brush up on my Oracle PL/SQL skills and Oracle DBA skills.
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Post #21,478
by admin
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12/14/01 10:07:58 AM
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New Get 9i
Much better, easier install on Linux.

PostgreSQL (if you can ever download it :-P -- actually, check your distro, you should be able to get the packages from them or from rpmfind.net) has the advantage over Interbase et al. in that it uses a subset of PL/SQL for its stored procedures.
Regards,

-scott anderson
Post #21,495
by tonytib
12/14/01 11:30:12 AM
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New Yep, that's why I think he should look at Oracle/PostgreSQL
With Oracle 9i being the first priority.

Although I think IB should get a fair shot, it doesn't have much market or mind share. Norm is interested in learning stuff that employers will be interested....thus Oracle should be #1. And, given the similarities between Oracle and PostgreSQL, I think PostgreSQL should be the open source data base he tries to learn if he has any time after practicing with Oracle.

Tony
Post #21,522
by nking
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12/14/01 3:06:48 PM
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New This bandwidth is killing me
I just finished downloading 8i and now 9i is three CDs full of files? Yikes! I hope my ISP doesn't ding me for the bandwidth used to download them.

rpmfind.net doesn't seem to work, I also tried www.rpmfind.net, got a host not found error. Either my ISP is flakey or their host is down?
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Post #21,524
by nking
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12/14/01 3:12:45 PM
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New Got it!
I went to [link|http://www.rpmfind.org|[link|http://www.rpmfind.org|http://www.rpmfind.org]] and got it from there. I am not sure why the .net didn't work? Must be my DNS flaking out on me?
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     Free and Open Source Databases for Linux and Windows - (nking) - (14) - Dec. 13, 2001, 09:53:54 PM EST
         Re: Free and Open Source Databases for Linux and Windows - (wharris2) - (7) - Dec. 13, 2001, 10:07:09 PM EST
             Postgres problems - (nking) - (2) - Dec. 13, 2001, 10:25:37 PM EST
                 I got this to work - (static) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2001, 01:39:48 AM EST
                     Sorry, bouncie bouncie - (nking) - Dec. 14, 2001, 01:49:36 AM EST
             Exactly! ... Well, not *quite*. :-) - (ThinlyVeiled) - (3) - Dec. 14, 2001, 07:28:32 PM EST
                 Groton, Conneticut - (tonytib) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2001, 08:38:49 PM EST
                     Yah.. I dropped in there for breakfast - (Ashton) - Dec. 14, 2001, 09:20:48 PM EST
                 Now that potential Santa season is almost over... - (wharris2) - Dec. 14, 2001, 08:47:29 PM EST
         You might see if Oracle is still giving out free software - (tonytib) - (5) - Dec. 13, 2001, 10:51:47 PM EST
             Oracle freebies - (nking) - (4) - Dec. 14, 2001, 01:51:08 AM EST
                 Get 9i - (admin) - (3) - Dec. 14, 2001, 10:07:58 AM EST
                     Yep, that's why I think he should look at Oracle/PostgreSQL - (tonytib) - (2) - Dec. 14, 2001, 11:30:12 AM EST
                         This bandwidth is killing me - (nking) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2001, 03:06:48 PM EST
                             Got it! - (nking) - Dec. 14, 2001, 03:12:45 PM EST

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