I don't believe i've yet worked in an it dept that didn't allow it's dba admin rights on their own machine. That allows vm to come into play. On 5/21/09, Adric Norris <spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> There's no need to use windows to run scripts on a database >> that happens to be running on windows. > > > In my case, virtually all of the databases are running on Solaris boxes. > Our notebooks containing the Oracle client (along with various > administrative utilities), however, are uniformly Windows XP. > > -- > "I'm too sexy for my code." - Awk Sed Fred. > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l