Re: home removal

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:32:48 -0800
Message-ID: <3E27A390.FFB6497C@exesolutions.com>

Joel Garry wrote:

> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3E26C96A.3F3DCC96_at_exesolutions.com>...
> > "alifiemylarder1_at_hotmail.com" wrote:
> >
> > > to remove all traces of Oracle is almost impossible, better to reinstall OS:)))
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Who said anything about "all traces" and it is, in fact, extremely easy. I can do it on just about any machine in
> > about 5 minutes.

>

> Man, you must be some kind of registry wizard. I've seen machines
> trash their reegistries with regedit and similar, and there's no way
> you can fix that in 5 minutes.

>

> Some of the PC products leave trash in the registry and possibly some
> other mysterious places, messing up the next install. With all the
> versions floating around with things that work, uh, "differently," I
> must agree with Rauf. Of course, I blame Microsoft for this. :-)

>

> >
> > Daniel Morgan

>

> jg
> --
> @home is bogus.
> Lessee, if Steve Ballmer is Curly, Larry Ellison is Larry, and Scott
> McNeally is Moe, who is Shemp?

Obviously if we were talking UNIX it would be easiest in that one can:

rm -r *

on the Oracle directories or just dump u03 and make it all go away almost instantly. About the only thing left would be a .profile entry or two.

on Windows a quick run with oradim cleans up the services ... 30 seconds if you forgot the syntax and have to run oradim to see it.
open the registry and dump HK_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / ORACLE and the homes are gone. ... 15 seconds. drop the oracle base directory and everything under it. ... 4 minutes while Windows does a lot of deletes drop PROGRAM FILES/ORACLE ... 14 seconds

For a total of 4 minutes 59 seconds. And all Oracle Homes, all Oracle software, and all Oracle inventory files are gone.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 00:32:48 CST