Questions about free personal or home edition of Oracle

I am considereing downloading the personal edition of Oracle for home use (mostly just learning Oracle) but I have some questions and concerns. Maybe someone could answer some of them.
1) Will it take up a lot of resources and bog down my computer? I have XP Pro with 512M Memory and plenty of disk space with a 1.8 Ghz AMD processor.
2) Is it just one download?
3) What do you actually get with that download? Do you just get the database? Or do you get SQL*Plus? Do you get Oracle Forms?
4) Is it fairly easy to set up and configure?
5) Does it have all the features of the enterprise version except on a smaller basis - Packages, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions, Synonyms, etc?
6) Is there any other concerns or comments that I should be aware of?

OK, let's see:
1) Will it take up a lot of resources and bog down my
computer? I have XP Pro with 512M Memory and plenty
of disk space with a 1.8 Ghz AMD processor.The main concern is memory, 512 is fairly good to run OracleXE.
2) Is it just one download?Yes, it is just one download for the database, if you want to have the client, then there is another download, this can be obtained from the same site where you got the database. There are other minor downloads, but those are silent install files, used only when you want to batch the installation process.
3) What do you actually get with that download? Do
you just get the database? Or do you get SQL*Plus? Do
you get Oracle Forms?You get the RDBSM 10gR2XE, and sqlplus as the SQL CLI (Command Line Interface), plus the OracleXE manager (a web based administrator, this cannot be compared with the regular EM DB Console, but it's nice, compact and provides pretty good manageability). You don't get development tools, but it is advisable that you download the SQLDeveloper, and IDE (free too) to develop PLSQL in a Toad like way.
4) Is it fairly easy to set up and configure?Yes, but just like any other rdbms, like MySQL or postgress, you should have an introductory document to tell you the basics to startup. Managing this from its web console gives you a first productive administrative session. Meanwhile, you should be getting involved with more advanced concepts, and you can get the XE documents from the tahiti site (http://tahiti.oracle.com).
5) Does it have all the features of the enterprise
version except on a smaller basis - Packages, Stored
Procedures, Triggers, Functions, Synonyms, etc?There are several limitation, it is a very good point to start, but don't expect this to be used for a massive deployment on high availability and mission critical environments, it can be used for production, but you should be aware of the features and capabilities of the version, there are a couple of very good references where you can get an insight on what you can and cannot expect from XE:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle10g/pdf/twp_general_10gdb_product_family.pdf
and http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/cunningham-database-xe.html
6) Is there any other concerns or comments that I
should be aware of?Just read the above references and get your own conclusions, if you have any further concerns, please don't hesitate to come back to the forum. By the way there is an specific OracleXE forum, if you are interested, if you want to access this forum you must register to it.
~ Madrid

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