In my previous posts I installed Debian as a virtual server and installed Oracle XE on it. In this post some minor improvements are being described. The first is to make use of a fixed IP address for the Debian instance (in my default setup I made use of DHCP to obtain an IP address). This is done in Debian by editing the file ‘/etc/network/interfaces’.
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In this post we will install Oracle XE on the virtual Debian server that we installed in part 1. This installation is described in detail on several sites. I started with the instruction from this site.
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Since a week I am the proud owner of a MacBook. Besides all new nice features and tools I was getting with the MacBook I knew there was (at least) one thing I would miss: Oracle XE installation for Mac OS. Since I use this XE a lot for research and development I had the workaround for this high on my list of things to do.
While setting up my workaround, I noticed there are already a lot of articles about this issue, but nevertheless I decided to post my solution, worst case it would only be for my own reference in future :-)
Like I said my goal was to setup a virtual server running Oracle XE so I could access the database from Mac OS. My most important goal was to keep the memory footprint as low as possible (and cheap as possible). So setting up a virtual server running Windows was not an option! I choose to use Debian Linux, it’s free and without the graphical user interface it has a very low memory footprint. The rest of this post I will describe how I set up Debian with Sun’s Virtual Box. In the next post I will describe how to install Oracle XE on the Debian server.
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Since Oracle has released the Oracle XE database, I have been using it a lot. It makes life much easier when I want to investigate new features in Oracle software and I need a ‘simple’ database for it. Until now I had to install the complete Oracle Enterprise Database and although this process of installing has become easier and easier over the years, it still takes up a lot of my resources on my laptop when running the database.
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