{"id":177,"date":"2006-05-10T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:16","slug":"running-oracle-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2006\/05\/10\/running-oracle-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Oracle &#8211; The Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This follows on from my previous posting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=170\">Searching for an Oracle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is kind of old news now, because it&#8217;s been in use since SQLEditor 1.2 was released. However I though I would explain how I solved the problem that I was having with installing Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was that I didn&#8217;t have a linux machine with enough memory and at the time, qemu wasn&#8217;t really fast enough to run Oracle in a virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>The first strategy I used was to upgrade the memory in my linux box (Cetaganda) to 512 MB. This solved the memory problem and meant that the testing could continue.<\/p>\n<p>Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\">Parallels Workstation<\/a> was released, which was able to run Oracle XE in a virtual machine fast enough for regular use. It also uses a different IP address than the host machine, which is useful in itself for testing.<\/p>\n<p>Parallels is definitely the answer to this problem, I don&#8217;t need to switch on another machine, there is no additional noise and the performance is excellent for my purposes. I&#8217;m even considering adding the loading of the VM to the unit test setup so it will load automatically before the test cycle starts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got MySQL and Postgres running inside virtual machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This follows on from my previous posting. Searching for an Oracle This is kind of old news now, because it&#8217;s been in use since SQLEditor 1.2 was released. However I though I would explain how I solved the problem that I was having with installing Oracle. The problem was that I didn&#8217;t have a linux [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[26,56,57,64,65,66],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-macintosh","tag-database","tag-oracle","tag-parallels-workstation","tag-sql","tag-sqleditor","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}