bloat
Oracle client for linux is 386MB.. insane.. that's of course just the installation file which I'm still downloading. I'm sure the actual install is bigger.
There's a small, "instantclient" which is under 10MB and unables you to use JDBC and (burp) SQL*Plus.. but for what I need it's not enough..
When the hell did a DB client (*CLIENT* not the DB itself) get so freaking large? Someone needs to put Oracle on a diet..
Comments
Check out henplus and the thin Oracle JDBC driver. Once you get the Java readline support working (no biggie for Linux; something of a pain for OS X), it's a beautiful utility. Depending on what you need it for, of course...
Posted by: B | July 9, 2004 03:48 PM
There's allways Perls DBI and DBIShell ...
(okok, you are one of those weirdos that actually like Java, sorry I mentioned Perl ;-) )
Posted by: Georg Bauer | July 9, 2004 04:45 PM
The basic Oracle client code can be had for under 40 megs (I know, it's huge, but only around 15% of what you had to download otherwise).
And to test it, you can even use SQL*Plus
Try to download the "Oracle Instant Client" and it's related ODBC, JDBC and SQL*plus packages.
Worked for me, on win32
Posted by: Vinit | July 9, 2004 05:25 PM
Probably as a result of Oracle's "Universal Installer", their own custom JDK (with modifications) and all of the supporting libraries with which you'll probably never use.
Posted by: Mark | July 12, 2004 06:35 PM