« The Electric Bike Needs Maintenance | Main | Hey, I'm Outta Here »

July 13, 2006

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.

Posted by rossm at July 13, 2006 1:47 PM

Comments

Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)


Remember me?