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Re: Help on creating new database in Oracle 8i

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:06:34 +0200
Message-ID: <971431121.11478.0.pluto.d4ee154e@news.demon.nl>

I would suggest
0 Read the manual, particularly the Getting Started Manual 1 Leave out all the other steps, as you can't do this with Personal Oracle, you can work with *one* database only!

Apart from that,as the steps you outline below are all wrong.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Jay Wang" <jaywang922_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:nRxF5.5001$uw4.178595_at_newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Hi! I need help on creating a database in Oracle 8i! I'm using Oracle 8i
> Personal Editio on Windows 98.
>
> Here are the procedures that I use:
>
> 1. change db_name (to TEST) , and control_files in the init.ora file.
> 2. go to regedit and change the oracle_sid to the TEST database.
> 3. now, what should I do to create a new instance for my TEST database so
> that I can startup and create database?
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated!
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 13 2000 - 03:06:34 CDT

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