In third place is a reference to foreign keys referencing unique constraints rather than a primary key.
In second place, and heading towards its second birthday, was my desire for SQL Developer to have a "keep awake" function that stops sessions being killed. It still doesn't but will restore connections.
In first place, was an almost throwaway article from when I migrated my netbook from XP to Windows 8. I installed Oracle 11g XE on it, and apparently a lot of people are (or were) interested in that. I guess people get Windows 8 on a machine and wonder if it is worth trying an XE install. The XE install on Windows is trivially simple:
- Download
- Unzip
- Run the setup program
- Choose a directory
- Enjoy a cup of coffee while it churns through. You have time for a biscuit too.
That article is nearing its first anniversary. In honour of that occasion, I upgraded to Windows 8.1. Oracle XE broke. Specifically I couldn't find the services that ran the listener or the database or anything Oracle related. A repair install of XE didn't fix things. Disclaimer: I don't use Oracle a lot on that machine, and it possible that something other than the 8.1 upgrade broke it.
I uninstalled it (that would have been the 'repaired' install), blew away all the database files as I had nothing I wanted to keep, and re-installed (instructions above - my biscuit was a Tim Tam, but people in the UK may substitute a p-p-p-penguin). It seems to work fine now.
So Oracle 11g XE works on Windows 8.1, as far as I can see. Bear in mind that XE doesn't have any real support anyway, so the difference between a 'supported' and 'unsupported' configuration is purely imaginary. I don't do anything like RMAN backups and restores, let alone between OS upgrades. I can't see why they wouldn't work, but I'm not a DBA.
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