Chapter 1. Installation and Configuration

Table of Contents

1. Release Notes
1.1. Nomenclature Change
1.2. Stored Procedure Refactoring and Performance
1.3. Redis Deprecated
1.4. Known Third-Party Driver Issues
1.4.1. Oracle on Windows: Oracle Bug 12733000 OCIStmtRelease crashes or hangs if called after freeing the service context handle
1.4.2. SQL Server on Linux: unixODBC's handle validation may become a performance bottleneck
1.5. Linux Font Pre-Installation Requirements
2. Documentation License and Copyright
3. HammerDB v4.0 New Features
4. Test Matrix
5. Checksum Verification
6. Installing and Starting HammerDB on Windows
6.1. Self Extracting Installer
6.2. Zip File
6.3. Starting HammerDB
6.4. Uninstalling HammerDB
7. Installing and Starting HammerDB on Linux
7.1. Self Extracting Installer
7.2. Tar.gz File
7.3. Starting HammerDB
7.4. Uninstalling HammerDB
8. Verifying the Installation of Database Client Libraries
8.1. Oracle Client
8.2. SQL Server
8.3. Db2
8.4. MySQL
8.5. PostgreSQL
9. XML Configuration
10. Themes and Scalable Graphics