Oracle XE 11gR2 installation - “OracleXEService should not be installed already”
Oracle XE 11gR2 beta has just been released, some details here and download here. It’s not a great deal of use for sandboxing DWH-specific stuff, given this list of excluded functionality (and this is by no means everything that’s not included):
Bitmapped index, bitmapped join index, and bitmap plan conversions Oracle Partitioning Parallel Data Pump Export/Import Parallel query/DML Parallel Statement Queuing (source)
However, it’s always interesting to have to hand for trying out other things.
