Before you run sgrmgr30, set SID first.
Wayne McKinney wrote in message <79cmp9$ejb$1_at_news1-alterdial.uu.net>...
>How do you create an Oracle 8.0.4 instance and then the database associated
>with it?
>
>I've tried following the documentation, but it seems to run me in circles.
>I know that my steps are:
>(1) Create the instance - I did that with ORADIM80 (on NT 4.0 workstation).
>I called it GD4
>(2) Modified the LISTENER.ORA file to listen for the GD4 instance.
>(3) Created an INITGD4.ORA file to have the necessary startup parameters.
>
>It's at this point that I get stuck. I can't get into Enterprise Manager
>using this service name. (The DB doesn't exist yet, so the Net8 has
nothing
>to connect to, so it never finalizes this entry in its file).
>
>I try going into SVRMGR30, but I again run into the problem that there are
>no SQL*Net services to this instance yet. Doing a CONNECT INTERNAL asks me
>for a password, but none of the Oracle defaults seem to satisfy it.
>
>The Enterprise Manager documentation says that to start an instance, you
>have to get into the Startup Database dialog box of Enterprise Manager, but
>that box appears to be in the Backup Manager which I can't get into because
>I have no SQL*Net service going to it.
>
>I could go on in circles here and never make it to the center. What am I
>doing wrong?
>
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 20:38:31 CST
