Anyone Running Oracle 9i on Jaguar?

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callieX

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I am an Oracle DBA who getting ready to run Oracle 9i (developer version) on Jaguar. It is a free download from Oracle's site. I have read the write ups that O'reilly has posted on the web and would like some feedback from anyone who has it working.
I intend to put it on a 17 in Powerbook when I get it. I just want to play with it and it would be nice to have Oracle working at home for a change.
 
I got around to installing it on a test machine just to get the feel of it. It was a tedious and mostly unremarkable process (I am sure you know about).

It seemed to work perfectly and had no issues with it. Afterwards there were the O'Reilly articles which I found very insightful and helpful, providing hints to some problems I had with the installation (user creation and stuff).

dani++
 
I first tried it on a G4 iMac I had sitting around (all my other production boxes were not yet on Jaguar, a sensible delay). No issues with it whatsoever.

After upgrading my CUBE to Jaguar I installed it there with no problems.

I was not pretending to eve come close to a production machine on these (AFAIK, ORA9 for MacOSX is not on production status yet). It was only for testing purposes.

Personally, I wouldn't put ORA in production on anything less than a XServe. I would use a single processor one with plenty of RAM (a 1.3GHz G4 packs plenty of punch) or a dual if a lot of concurrence were expected. ORA handles unbelievable concurrence and loads from hell on our dual-proc Sun machine (which is not as fast as an XServe). I've seen the database engine and Solaris box withstand peaks of 25+ processes on the ready-queue. That's a heck of a load (do an top on your busy MacOSX box for a comparison).

dani++
 
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