Comments on: Oracle 10g Express Edition on a Mac

By: Harald Walker

Harald Walker — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:45:31 +0000

Oracle is now also offering pre-built developer VMs using VirtualBox.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html

By: AA

AA — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:26:06 +0000

oh what a surprise, i was sure XE was just for localhost connection and couldn’t in any case connect from remote servers.
So the limit is just to max 10 connections

By: Harald Walker

Harald Walker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:59:19 +0000

This blog post was from 2007. The easiest solution now is to grab the available VMware image with Oracle XE and tools ready to go from http://www.bertscalzo.com/page5.html. Of course you could convert this for Virtualbox or Parallels. For our project XE is not enough any longer in the development/build phase as we depend on features which are not being supported by XE.

By: Sam Brodkin

Sam Brodkin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:33:29 +0000

Why go through the pain? I just installed windoze XP in my parallels with oracle XE and it worked.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:49:01 +0000

hi i want to know exactly how i can set everything in my mac, beacuase i allready have ubuntu with oracle but i’m using netbeans to develop my programs and i want to know how can i connect to the databse in ubuntu.

thanks in advance

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:35:17 +0000

Thanks so much for your help. That worked as you suggested by going into Ubuntu and goint to the System > Administration > Network Tools and got the IP Address of the Network Device – Ethernet Interface (eth0) and used that address in the Host field and with port set to 1521 and SID as XE.

Thanks again.

Paul

By: Harald Walker

Harald Walker — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:35:04 +0000

127.0.0.1 is your localhost. You must find out the public IP address of the Ubuntu VM. Parallels offers just like VMware different network modes. On VMware those are NAT, bridged and host only. I use bridged and set the IP manually. In Ubuntu go to System > Administration > Network Tools. It will show you the IP addresses per network device. In SQL Developer used XE as SID value. Now you should be able to connect as user system and create your own users and databases.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:46:24 +0000

I have managed to get 10g XE loaded on Ubuntu using parallels. But I cannot connect using SQLDeveloper on native OS X. Any Ideas? What should the connect string be? How do I find out what the connection values should be. Any help would be appreciated.

The ubuntu port is 1521 the host is set to 127.0.0.1.