Re: Oracle for Windows XP with INTEL inside

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:15:26 +0800, Sinardy Xing <sinardyxing_at_bkgcomsvc.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am so confuse now, I am able to connect to my database without a listener and not even set the Oracle_SID variable.
>
> I show you my log... I don't even have ORACLE_SID
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Actually all that shows you is that you don't have ORACLE_SID set as an environment variable. If you run regedit though you will find that under HKLM\Software\Oracle\HomeN you will have a registry entry ORACLE_SID which is set to CANADA. N is the (zero based) number of your 9i Oracle Home. So on my machine the setting is under HKLM\Software\Oracle\Home4. If you install 10g then the same principle applies but the registry key gets moved to HKLM\Software\Oracle\Key_<OracleHomeName>

> If let say I have other instances namely ITALY and INDONESIA, how I connect to ITALY?

You can just set the environment variable as you did before as environment variables set at the various levels have this heirarchy (in ascending order) for Oracle.

registry key - as above
system environment variable - Secondary click My Computer|Properties|Advanced|Environment Variables user environment variable - as system env vars command shell environment variable - set command at a prompt.

> Unix and Windows are so diffrent...

Yes.

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