If the jobs in development (and may be not only in development) are 
hanging up or crashing when trying to connect to the Oracle DB,
there is a couple of simple workarounds allowing to bypass the problems:

<ul>
<li>
     if you don't need a DB connection at all, disable module called 
     CalibrationManager in your .tcl file:

<b><pre>
module disable CalibrationManager
</pre></b>

<li> if you need a DB acces, but can use a "msql fallback", here is the 
     solution suggested by Liz Sexton-Kennedy:
<b><pre>
talk CalibrationManager
  Database set database_msql
  DataDB set database_msql
exit
</pre></b>
   this should work on the development platforms which have msql
   istalled.
<li> <b> how to turn off Oracle/MSQL compilation </b>
<pre>
From: Dennis Box <dbox@fndapl.fnal.gov>
To: r.stdenis@physics.gla.ac.uk, sexton@fnal.gov
Subject: Turning off Oracle/msql in the CDF Code base



To turn off Oracle compliation/linking:  set the OMIT_ORACLE environment
variable i.e. setenv OMIT_ORACLE 1

To turn off Msql :  set the OMIT_MSQL environment variable.
</pre>
</ul>