Re: home removal

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:00:56 -0800
Message-ID: <3E26C928.A301C1CD@exesolutions.com>

Rauf Sarwar wrote:

> "Nicholas Lessard" <bougon666_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<H_hV9.18650$PM4.2514773_at_charlie.risq.qc.ca>...
> > I have 4 different ho0mes for Oracle but only 2 are used; the others were
> > left because of previous installations...
> >
> > How can I remove them?
>
> 4 homes on one machine... yikes!
>
> With my experience in uninstalling Oracle from a machine... I would
> suggest backup all databases, uninstall all homes, remove all traces
> of Oracle from the machine then reinstall 2 versions that are needed.
> Recreate databases.
>
> Maybe someone else can post a better/quicker way then this, which I
> would also like to know.
>
> Regards
> /Rauf Sarwar

Why yikes? Not unusual at all. It wasn't that long ago that a standard installation of Oracle RDBMS, Forms & Reports, Designer, and Discover would have had Oracle forcing separate homes.

The reason I asked WHY is because I don't see any problem provided ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME are correctly set.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 09:00:56 CST