Ming Man Chan's Blog

Oracle Database 11g successfully installed in Virtual PC 2007 running Windows XP

Oracle Database 11g for Windows is available recently. After the successful installation of Oracle Database 11g in Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 two months ago, last night I have done the installation for Oracle Database 11g in Virtual PC 2007 running Windows XP. Virtual PC 2007 is running on Dell Latitude D620 with 2GB RAM.

The first task I did after the installation was I enabled user, SCOTT, using Oracle Enterprise Manager. After that I straight away fired up Visual Studio 2005 with ODP.NET 10.2 installed without installing any new component. The connection can be established through Server Explorer to 11g Database in Visual Studio. This is a great feeling started with Oracle Database 11g.

For more resources:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/index.html

3 new discoveries in Oracle Database 11g

First, after the installation of Oracle Database 11g then I click the Start -> Oracle - OraDb11g_home1-> Application Development for SQL Plus but I saw something new, SQL Developer. With Oracle Database 11g users no longer need to download SQL Developer (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html) separately.

Second, do not type http://localhost:1158/em to go to Enterprise Manager in Oracle Database 11g rather https://localhost:1158/em. Hope you will notice the difference in �s�.

Third, I will normally look for iSQL at the home page of Enterprise Manager. In Enterprise Manager 11g it should be SQL Worksheet. It is a new fresh experience in SQL Worksheet.

Enjoy Oracle Database 11g, new discovery will be coming.