Has Anyone Got TOra 1.2.4 On Linux Working Against Oracle Database 10g?

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

I’ve been trying to get TOra 1.2.4 to connect to an Oracle Database 10g installation, with both client and server on the same Red Hat 9.0 machine.
Unfortunately, although TOra starts up, as soon as I try and connect I keep coming up with the error “ORA 12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified”, […]

Oracle 10g, 10gAS Now Available For Linux, Unix

Friday, February 20th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

All of the Oracle 10g infrastructure components are now available for
download on OTN, for Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris.

Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2)
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (10.1.0.2)
Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4)
Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4)

I’ve just finished putting in the Oracle Database 10g on my Red Hat 9.0 PC
(after following Werner Puschitz’s excellent installation
cookbook) […]

Install Notes for Oracle 10gAS (9.0.4) on United Linux

Friday, January 2nd, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Jon Mead just contacted me to let me know he’d successfully installed Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) on United Linux. Over to Jon;
“I have successfully installed 10g AS on Linux (United Linux
distribution).  Attached is a document explaining the step (you
will also need the quick installation guide).
My initial thoughts are:

It worked (!!) with much less pain […]

TOra, The Linux Alternative To TOAD

Monday, December 22nd, 2003 by Mark Rittman

One of my New Year Resolutions is to move my work laptop over to Linux, to be more in sync with Oracle’s development effort and to benefit from the extra performance that you get from running Oracle on a Unix platform. One of the things that’s put me off in the past is the thought […]

Which Versions Of Linux Work With Oracle RAC?

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

“I was wondering what Oracle 9i RAC could be installed on. I had a look around and it seams to be tested on Redhat linux enterprise. The current version is is 3 and there are WS,AS & ES version. I could download and compile & build, but it’s loads of work, can I use the […]

Red Hat 9.0 - The Last Red Hat Consumer Distro?

Saturday, September 27th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

Red Hat 9.0 looks like being the last release of this Linux distro, with Red Hat the company concentrating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the consumer distro being merged with the Fedora Project.
According to the Fedora Project website;
“The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground […]