Oracle connectivity has been one of the main things I’ve been working on this week with SQLEditor. This involved installing Oracle on my iBook. Oracle 10g is a remarkably complicated bit of software. It arrives in a 500MB+ download which takes forever to download and then a significant amount of time to install.
My machine is also noticably short of memory for oracle because it has only 256MB of ram, rather than the 512MB recommended.
The good news is that simple databases are now accessible using oracle, although larger ones are still a bit too big. I’m still working on trying to fix this. The idea of schemas in Oracle is also quite different in that you pretty much use one database and then sub-divide it up.
I’ve added a nice about box to the application that now includes a two column credits section and details of the username and serial number for the application.