Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Oracle XE 11g Beta has been released

It sounds like an April 1st joke, the long awaited Oracle XE 11g Beta Version, but it is not. On OTN you can download either a Windows Installer or a Linux Installer.
In short the limitations of XE 11g:

* only one CPU is used
* only one installation of XE per Computer
* up to 11 gigabyte of user-data is allowed ! (XE10 had only 4GB)
* only 1 GB RAM is used (at most)
* no HTTPS with the built in EPG
Link to the : installation guide
Link to the : download location

The only thing you have to enter during the installation was a password for the SYS and SYSTEM DB Users, the rest went with the defaults. Just a couple minutes later XE 11g was up and running :-)

The first thing i did was allowing remote access to the new and shiny graphical admin interface. Simply enter this command “EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETLISTENERLOCALACCESS(FALSE);” when connected to SQLPLUS as SYS or SYSTEM.

With the URL http://<hostname>:8080/apex/f?p=4950 you can start the graphical admin interface of your XE 11g database.

Try it yourself, It looks really great!

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