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Hi Karsten Farrell, thanks for writing this:
> Hi newbie, thanks for writing this:
> > I installed Oracle 8i
> >
> > The database I created was called test1
> >
> > It gave this during install
> > ----------------------
> >
> > global datbase name : test1
> > database SID : test1
> > internal account password: oracle
> > SYS account password : change_on_install
> > SYSTEM account password : manager
> >
> > I went to SQL Plus & tried to launch it.
> > No combination of username / passwords as suggested by Oracle
> > above worked. I get the error
> >
> > (I am not sure what to install at HOSTSTRING. I assume it is the
> > hostname I tried blank as well)
> >
> > EROOR:
> > ORA-01034:ORACLE not available
> >
>
> 1. Open a DOS window
> 2. Type the following sqlplus commands:
>
> c:\> set ORACLE_SID=test1
> c:\> sqlplus /nolog
> sql> connect / as sysdba
> sql> startup
> ...[displays sga and other stuff; continue when db 'open' displayed]...
> sql> exit
>
Hmm. Can I retract my help? I wrote this before your abusive language posts arrived on my server. If I had seen them first, I *never* would have replied.
-- [:%s/Karsten Farrell/Oracle DBA/g]Received on Thu Jul 31 2003 - 16:27:31 CDT