I would like to start using some of the 10g OLAP features. Databases in the company are not yet patched till level 10.1.0.4 so I’ll have to install it myself. Downloaded 10g for windows and the patchset because my machine does not have yet enough memory to run it under RH in VMWare. Installing the patch took a while, longer than the actual install of the database. Now that 10g is up and running I’m ready for OLAP.
Mark Rittman’s article on the benefits of adding the OLAP Option to your OracleBI Discoverer reporting gives a good idea of some of the OLAP features.
Installed Oracle 10g on RHEL4. After reading this it was not very difficult to fix some small issues. The only remaining issue I had was:
Error in invoking target ‘ntcontab.o’ of makefile ‘/oracle/10g/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk
This was solved by installing gcc on my VM.
This is the first in a series of guides that provide all the steps for installing the major components of Oracle Database 10g software on Linux. All five of the certified English-language distributions of Linux are covered in detail (Asianux is not covered), and the guides assume that inexpensive Intel x86 hardware is being used. The guides walk you through the process of installation and configuration on commodity hardware for the purpose of evaluating the major Oracle 10g products.
The ultimate goal of this series is to help you install and configure all the components of an Oracle 10g Grid. Along the way, you will see how to install and configure a single-instance Oracle 10g database (this guide), a two-node Oracle RAC 10g database, all the major components of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control.
Today we have started thinking about automation of testing. With release 11i we expect to apply many patches, we will need to develop a way to do automatic testing simply because we do not have the resources and time to do it manually.
