Nun hatte ich vor, meinem "betagten" Notebook (IBM Thinkpad T41) vor eine neue Herausforderung zu stellen und eine "Probierversion" der Oracle Datenbank 10g (Enterprise Edition!) zu hosten.

I just wanted to run DBDesigner on my mandriva linux notebook. A colleague of mine told me that it is a very productive visual Db modelling tool. So I downloaded it from http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/downloads.php, unpacked it and wanted to run it. But the script exited without any output. And no GUI window appeared. Running the app with strace showed me somethng like

Recently I wrote about a cool SQL DB client called SQL Explorer. Now a colleague of mine, who was developing against a Oracle DB presented SQL Developer. And my review reveals: It’s cool too!

Sitting in the Oracle course I get more and more in touch with SQL and its varieties Data Manipulation Language, Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Control Language (DCL) and Transaction Control Language (TCL).

But its very cumbersome to use the iSQL*Plus web front-end to write and execute all the queries.