DBAs please read this!!!

    I have a very symple quetion for you guys. It sound so simple. But it will help me a lot. I was frustrated, technically humiliated, and confused.

    My question is that WHAT IS RIGHT WAY TO INSTALL ORACLE?

    Of course, follow the instructions on the Installation Guide is one way. It surely be a
officially supported and recommended way.

   In the real world, however, due to all kinds of reasons, people DO NOT do this way.

   The following is the way I am tring to convince those people NOT do, but I failed to.

   For Sun Machines: OS level Solaris 2.5( OS version is same)

   step 1 Install ORACLE on SPARC 20 in the ORACLE Recommaned way.    step 2 Tar the whole $ORACLE_HOME
   step 3 ftp to a new SUN machine ( OS is same as in step 1, but machine be different

        say ES 6000 or some higher than SPARC 10)    step 4 untar
   step 5 finished ( even did not remake!!!)

   What bothered me is that when I called ORACLE tech support, the answer is that it
is NOT supported, but they know in real world people do this way. They do not have
any official word about this practice.

    I have a email from a local ORACLE office confirm that this is way is fine.

    My question for you all is that

    What am supposed to do?
    If you guys see this kind of practice, did ever experieced big problem? If you do, please email me. So far I noticed

1. 600 ERRORS all over our instances ( This might not be the result of this practice, but for me it might be thr culprit)
2. One some machine, when create tablespace, it hang the whole machine. No respose even hit return untill the create tablespace finish.

I will be very appriciated if can responde this MSG.

Thanks again

ecao_at_ti.com Received on Thu Dec 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CST