Comments on: Oracle 10g XE and PHP

By: Selva

Selva — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:33:14 +0000

I beleive Oracle 10g XE does not include JVM in it. Basically, i’m trying to create Java stored procedure. Can someone help how to add this loadjava utility to Oracle 10g.? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Selva,
nvselva@gmail.com

By: roberlamerma

roberlamerma — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:27:03 +0000

I’ve installed Oracle 10g Express Edition on a Linux box, for development and testing purposes, but still cannot make my applications work with it.

It seems Oracle 10g EE uses a single database, and you must use one schema for each application. The thing is I haven’t been able to run any of my applications using this approach.

Obviously Im doing something wrong. I created usernames/passwds for each application but Im not sure what to put in the dbname, because of the schema approach.

I get a connection exception all the time.

Thanks!

By: DHIRAJ PATRA

DHIRAJ PATRA — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:52:50 +0000

Still I am awating to use it. Some people anxious about its memory hungry nature. It should be solved to some step out the MySql. Because in open source development MySql is the DB king. If any body even Oracle want to compete its region then need the effeciency and usefullness on that perticular region of user requirements otherwise Oracle will be in its own region and MySql in another. Bothe are good and stable but if one need to compete to other then, let see what happen in near future. Thanks

By: kurt

kurt — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:41:20 +0000

I want to enable .cfm files to work with the Oracle XP download.
I’m looking for the httpd.conf file and I can’t find it. I know XE is using some form of Apache to power it. I need to get coldfusion working on it too.

By: sri

sri — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:08:49 +0000

I have created a user with DBA role and have built a Database( Tables)..now i want to grant acess to another user for these tables..is it possible. I tried creating another user. The user was created but i am unable to acess the Tables already created.Please help me overcome this

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By: gabse

gabse — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:57:27 +0000

Hi everybody,
I know it says everywhere that Oracle 10g doesn’t work on XP Home Edition, but I am stubborn and want to see if it is true. I have installed it with no problem … and it seems to be working…up until I try to shutdown the database. I put in my username and password for the machine, the username and password for the database and I get an error: RemoteOperationException: ERROR: Wrong password for user. It has something to do with the allowing the user to logon as a “Batch Job”. To resolve the issue you have to go to Control Panel -> Admin tools -> Local Security Policy.
The problem is that it the Home Edition doesn’t have Local Security Policy. Does anybody know where to find such a thing in Home Edition ? I would really appreciate your help.

By: ophir

ophir — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:37:55 +0000

And this means no concurent INSERTs or UPDATEs, DELETEs on your account so you don’t withdraw more than what you should. mySQL is unable to guarantee that at 100%.

the above statement is wrong.
mysql can provide the same level of data integrity as oracle.

By: maxim

maxim — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:36:53 +0000

To those who still thinks that mySQL is something comparable to Oracle.

The two ARE NOT COMPARABLE AT ALL.

MySQL is a File System with SQL interface (it stores data in files and reads data from files, simple as that) and Oracle is a RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System - between selects and updates it kind of thinks, making sure not to screw data around, guarantees you the data integrity). You basically can trust Oracle ;)

Ever seen an ATM machine? You pass your credit card, it goes to Visa or whatever, then connects to your bank account to do confirm availabiluty..ecc… Most of these systems tipically use Oracle or similar (few things as similar). Such system receives millions of connections from all over the world and manages them right. No exceptions, no faults, no crashes, no errors… It’s relational and works with human-like logic and its extremely fast.

Oracle would grab your bank details out of million accounts just as fast as you do a simple “SELECT (*)” in mySQL. But what’s even more important than speed is that Oracle would guarantee you that while retrieving your data there was no modification pending for that record at that very time made by any other connection. And this means no concurent INSERTs or UPDATEs, DELETEs on your account so you don’t withdraw more than what you should. mySQL is unable to guarantee that at 100%.

That is why mySQL is good for web applications and Oracle for some serious and responsible systems. With Oracle you first get database up that works on 100% and then write clients to access it. A totaly different approach. That is why they are uncomparable :)

I’m very happy though to see Oracle releasing its lite version. This means that more web developers will get onto it, simple projects will be working better, bigger projects will have time to evaluate the product, other database, even mySQL itself will have to get better to compete for web applications…

regards,
maxim

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:20:39 +0000

Does Oracle XE use less Memory?

Much less than standard oracle, it runs (almost) ok on a 512Mb PC.

who would download a 150+ MB software with restrection applied and most importantly not really free! Personally, I’d rather use MySQL or PostgreSQL over Oracle XE

It is free, and the restrictions of 4Gb data space and single processor will not affect most web apps.

So what does oracle have that MS-SQL/mySQL5 doesn’t???

Will I end up preferring it to MS-SQL/mySQL ?

I heard it’s the database of choice from db gurus, if that’s the truth or not… i’d like to know

Oracle is dramatically better and more sophisticated than MySQL and often necassary in large enterprise apps, but MySQL is sufficient for backing most web apps.