How to prevent (or limit) Oracle Reports Builder 10g crashing

Reports Builder version 10.1.2.0.2

DB version: 10.2.0.4.0 (64 Bit)

Oracle Reports Builder is crashing so regularly now that it is almost unuseable, we have to backup and save after every minor change "just in case" and inevitably, when anyone forgets to s开发者_StackOverflow社区ave it crashes immediately :-)

In light of this, we are having Reports installed on a vanilla PC with only what is needed for Reports Builder to run in the hope that the lack of other general business PC software might prevent the crashing/restarting that we have been experiencing with Reports Builder.

I realise the Reports Builder has never been a hugely stable development tool (even my Oracle Corp. course tutor admitted as much) but I've not seen it this bad before.

Has anyone out there managed to get Reports Builder 10g installed with good stability? If so, do you have any tips or information as to how you got it this way? What version of Reports Builder are you using?

Many thanks in advance...

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We encountered this instability as well. I think Oracle Reports Builder is famous for this. What we did to minimize the crashes was to use it inside a VM(running in VMWare ESX) and just Remote Desktop into it. We created multiple XP accounts so multiple developers can share the same VM.

I know this sounds downright crazy and does not make any sense but it did noticeably reduce the frequency of crashes. I think the best solution is just to drink a pitcher of patience, save often and try to hold on to your sanity.