Re: Horror-story: Oracle Personal Edition 8.1.6 Installation on Win98

Hi Sigurd

Username: system
Password: manager (use caution when logged in as 'system' as you will have DBA privileges)
for other combinations try scott/tiger (for the demos) or sys/change_on_install (be very careful with this one as you can screw the database completely as this user)
You should not need to provide an instance name as it will be set up as a default (LOCAL in your registry) but it should be either ORCL or ORACLE I have to say that without some knowledge of Oracle you won't be able to get far even when you log in.
Try 'Oracle8i A Beginners Guide' from Oracle Press to get started

Good Luck

Nick

"Sigurd Eckermann" <Sigurd.Eckermann_at_gmx.de> wrote in message news:90l28g$efe$03$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> Hallo Experts,
>
> I used MS-SQL-Server 7.0 before.
> Now I need to work with Oracle.
> I downloaded the Personal Edition 8.1.6 for Win98 from Oracle-Server.
>
> I use a PIII-800Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 30Gb HD, Win98SE.
>
> The installation was successful.
> I can see the sampledatabase in the Navigator.
>
> I tryed to create a database with default values. It was createt, a little
> Icon is visible in the taskbar.
> But I was not able to connect to this database in the navigator.
> He never said me the login and pass for the new database.(And never asked
> me)
>
> I tryed to create a new database with not default values. There he asked
 me
> for a password.
> But he worked about 3 hours to create the database with no result.
>
> I dont understand it all. He needed about 1h to install the package. To
> create a database it takes about 30 Mins.(with default values)
>
> These were my first experiences with Oracle-Database-Software .... !!!!
>
> I never seen something like that with MS SQL-Server.
>
> How can I connect to a local database ? Where can I see login and pass ?
> Who has got experiences with this software-package ?
>
> thx
> Sigurd Eckermann
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Received on Sat Dec 09 2000 - 05:27:09 CST