Re: CPU April 2005 patching madness

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:32:28 +0100
Message-ID: <bf463805052312326799eed1@mail.gmail.com>

A couple of folks have asked about the ORACLE_HOME environment variable. When working on Win32 boxes with multiple instances of Oracle I always set ORACLE_HOME to the correct location for the database in use.

The PATH is set to include only the %ORACLE_HOME%\bin for the database currently in use.

These values are also set in the registry for my session. ( HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment )

The ORACLE_HOME always required when using opatch.

The opatch.cmd script pulls it from the environment and passes it to opatch.pl.

The patch instructions include setting ORACLE_HOME in the current CMD window.

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Jared Still
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Received on Mon May 23 2005 - 15:37:15 CDT