<div>Dear Denis,</div>
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<div>you are right about the locatior in the Express edition. Never decided to install that one.</div>
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<div>Dejan<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:10, Jonio, Dennis (Aviation) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJonio@miami-airport.com">DJonio@miami-airport.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">James,<br>This is relevant to 10g and 11g. There is much misunderstanding<br>concerning Oracle's support of GIS. Oracle Locator is a subset of Oracle<br>
Spatial functionality within ALL of the Oracle database products<br>including Oracle Express. Yes, you may optionally not install it w/in<br>Standard and Enterprise. (I am not sure if you even have the option of<br>not installing if you are using Oracle Express.) Because Oracle Express<br>
does not come with the built in java engine some WKT/WKB functionality<br>is not there.<br>I would recommend using SL King Oracle FDO provider. I works very well.<br>Oracle Express 10g is free and works very well.<br>I have found absolutely no need for the additional functionality that<br>
comes with the purchase of Oracle Spatial. FREE Oracle Locator provides<br>ample support for our needs at the moment.<br><br>I put this together some time ago. Check it out:<br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/tf-net/wiki/OracleXeLicensedFunctionality" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/tf-net/wiki/OracleXeLicensedFunctionality</a><br>
<br>r,<br><font color="#888888">dennis<br></font>
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