Re: Oracle 7.3 & 8 on same NT host

No, multiple Oracle homes (directory structures) is not a supported on NT. You are right, you must install v.7 and v.8 under the same Oracle home. Being nervous about this can be expected. I would try it on a development machine first to see how it works out. I had a few problems (no show stoppers),
but I also had Developer 2k 1.x, 2.0/Designer 2k 1.3/Webserver 2.1/Enterprise
Mgr loaded in the same directory structure so I was probably asking for problems. Don't create a starter database, create your own and use a new SID for Oracle8. For example, dev7 (for 7.x) and dev8 for (8.x). And yes, you can run them both concurrently.

M.Landa

Ed Jennings wrote:

> I'm sure someone else has asked this before, but here goes. I'm running
> 7.3 on NT 4.0 and I want to install Oracle 8 also. I only have the one
> machine for both environments. Oracle 8 wants to use the same directory
> structure (\orant), and also to create an initial database with SID of
> ORCL. That is the same SID I'm using for my 7.3 instance. I'm new to
> NT, but my unix experience leads me to be a little nervous about using
> the same structure to hold two different versions of the DBMS software.
> Not to mention I have no control over the SID to use for the initial
> database (unless I just don't elect to have an initial built for me).
>
> Can someone provide a hint as to what my options (if any) are? Is is
> bad to have two versions on the same host? Can I install Oracle 8 into
> an alternative directory structure but still run both versins of the
> DBMS concurrently?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
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Received on Sun Feb 08 1998 - 00:00:00 CST