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Re: Free Oracle Database 10g

Eddie Awad — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:06:06 -0000

Thomas, I hope I will have the enthusiasm to "stay in touch" when I'm 74.

I suggest you download and install Oracle XE and start playing with it. The documentation is a big help. There is nothing to be afraid of :)

Re: Free Oracle Database 10g

Thomas Pierson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:23:10 -0000

I am a 74 year old Boeing retiree. I gained some knowledge of Oricle SQL while at Boeing. I was able to write adhoc report from Boeing's Oracle maintainability database. Since my retirement I have taken a couple of courses in basic Oricle9i PL/SQL at South West Illinois College. I have Coldfusion and Mysql on my computer and I would also like to an Qracle database but I am a little bit frightened. Will you help me with some advise?
I have no financial aspirations, I just want stay in touch.

Re: Free Oracle Database 10g

Eddie Awad — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:47:48 -0000

"XE comes with HTML DB 2.1 built in. This version of HTML DB is based on HTML DB 2.0 and is nearly identical. I say "nearly" because it doesn't use workspaces like HTML DB in Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition of the Oracle database." That's according to Sergio.

Re: Free Oracle Database 10g

Tom_Fox — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:51:26 -0000

I assume that HTMLDB 2.1 is still beta as well as XE, since I cannot find any information about 2.1 anywhere.

Also for supported/unsupported features, here's a good list.