Setting up Oracle 10g & Oracle Spatial / MapViewer for learning single PC

    I have been wanting to learn Oracle Spatial for some time now. I purchased the book "Pro Oracle Spatial"
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=315 several months ago and have read & understood the material. However my attempts to download & install the software from Oracle TechNet to actually perform the exercises / labs has not met with any success whatsoever. Everytime I try I get TNSListener related errors.

   I've had experience in Oracle 8i some years ago (2000-02), but it seems that the whole installation / configuration and client tools supplied for the Windows Platform has changed significantly in 10g. Has anyone got this to work on a single PC ?

Here is what I have and need to do...

1. DELL Dimension PC Running Windows XP Pro with enough disk space
2. Oracle 10g Software Enterprise Edition (downloaded from Oracle Technet for learning purposes)

I need to

1. Install Oracle 10g & Configure it to be able to load data into a Spatial Database.
2. Install & Configure Map Viewer to be able to look at the data I load

Is this even possible using only my PC? Is the architecture of 10g now set up so a real network (more than 1 machine) is required ?

Feedback much appreciated Received on Thu Mar 02 2006 - 17:18:48 CST