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July 13, 2006
Hey, I'm Outta Here
In case you're looking for me over the next week, good luck. I'm taking off for vacation up to Whistler, B.C. Hope to get in a bunch of fishing, some golf, and some general goofing off.
I must return, so will be back July 24th.
Posted by rossm at 2:09 PM | Comments (0)
Oracle XE and Other Stuff
Today Dale and I took a look at Oracle XE (Express Edition). This is the free edition of Oracle 10g and it has an http interface. It reminds me a bit of WebDB, not a good thing. In other words, the management functions and general interface are pretty limited. I tried to import a .dmp file and it couldn't import it.
Remaining questions are: Can you connect to this db with PL/SQL Developer? Can you connect using SQL Developer (formerly Raptor)? This db doesn't come with an Apache web server, but uses some form of http server - needs further investigation.
If we can get a more user friendly interface and also figure out some import strategies so we can get some data to work with, then we'll be able to give a better evaluation of this product.
In addition to exploring XE, we once again opened up OEM and worked on Aero's tablespace datafile allocations - making them more realistic compared to actual disk usage. I created the tablespaces with either 400 MB or 600 MB of disk space allocated. A few needed more, most needed far less, so we reclaimed a bunch of that disk space. We now have Aero's data storage pretty well allocated.
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