Registry or environment vars?

From: Nick Williamson <nick_williamson_at_mentor.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:41:30 +0100
Message-ID: <3f4b54f5$1@koetsier>

Hi all,

Can someone explain *just* how reliant Oracle 9i is on environment variables in the Win32 environment? Looking at the registry, I see that ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID are all defined there, but I know from experience that Oracle doesn't always behave itself unless at least some of them are set as environment variables too. Is there a clear distinction between some Oracle tools that use the registry and some that use environment vars? Is it good practice to set up those vars just in case?

TIA
Nick Received on Tue Aug 26 2003 - 07:41:30 CDT