Give me strength

[MarillionFan]

There's a shopping centre in Reading called The Oracle.

Customers used to end up there by mistake rather than heading to Thames Valley Park, because it was signposted off the IDR and the M4.

Never heard of it. I only go to the Broad St Mall. It's got cheap parking.

[TheFaQQer]

Never heard of it. I only go to the Broad St Mall. It's got cheap parking.

Butts Mall, surely?

[mudskipper]

I'm going to invent a database called "St Mary's Butts".

[MarillionFan]

I'm going to invent a database called "St Mary's Butts".

Suity still couldn't get a connection.

Boom tish.

[fullyautomatix]

Oh FFS. I was installing the ORACLE FRAKING CLIENT ON A FRAKIN XP MACHINE GEDDIT??? GEDDIT?? THE FRAKING SCHTOOPID DATABASE IS ON REDHAT YOU TWUNT. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

SuitYou I hope you dont get so impatient with your 15 dolla pensioner clients, it would give them a heart attack.

[d000hg]

I know what you are doing wrong...

WHY IN GODS NAME, ARE YOU RUNNING ORACLE ON WINDOWS????

You should have got the hint when Laza went and bought Sun and said he wanted to introduce a single stack for the enterprise...

Christ whats the point of buying an enterprise DB only to run it on a server full of mamory leaks (spelling intentional...)

Take your architect outside and pop a cap in his arse....

Oracle runs fine on Windows server, with or without a VM. Try not to mix cold hard science with operating system bigotry.