It looks rather, rather intriguing to run a ready-made VM with Oracle DB. Let’s see, how and wether it will work out! A ready-made VM with Oracle DB: That would trueyl be the easiest way to improve my Oracle DB, and SQL, and PL/SQL skills – together with the fine o’Reilly books on the related topics. How often did I only abandon this idea, because it wasn’t that easy to install Oracle DB on Suse Linux…
Amongst the various choices I went for the “Database App Development VM” (still valid and unchanged on 2014-11-12):
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/databaseappdev-vm-161299.html (still valid and unchanged on 2014-11-12, but they say, they updated the document in September, so it may also be reasonable to download the “appliance” again)
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 account details: Username and password is oracle.
And this very nice software will run on the very nice and fat Mac mini due to arrive tomorrow resp. on Wednesday. The “Oracle DB VM” will have its own and separate IP address on the LAN, that way the Oracle DB server will just be available on the LAN – w/o any restrictions because of its VM environment. This is going to be exciting and … breath-taking … – I will be able to learn Oracle DB and put that on my skill list.
Update 2014-07-16: For starting the Oracle Linux Server you need to have the VirtualBox “Extension Pack” installed as well – they don’t mention that on the page quoted above.
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