Re: Creating DB

Hi,
Your post gives very little clues to what you are exactly trying to accomplish. Are you trying to install a client only, or a full product. If you have Oracle 8 Server: it won't run on Win95. You need Personal Oracle 8.
Normally a database is automatically created in the installation process, unless you explicitly specify you don't want it. The error message 12560 is a generic error message, usually signifying a driver is not installed or not working properly. However there usually are associated error messages. We need to have that. Check your sqlnet.ora in %ORACLE_HOME\net80\admin for the following lines

trace_level_client = user (or 16 if you want to see everything)
trace_unique_client = true
trace_directory_client = <Your oracle home>\net80\trace.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

. <hatice.sancaktar_at_tvd.be> wrote in message news:Lxyt3.1244$Gm6.33885_at_news.chello.be...
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Oracle 8 on my computer (my OS is windows 95) but each
time
> I launch SQL plus I get the following message error (translated from
> french):
>
> "ORA-12560: TNS: protocol adaptation error ."
>
> Following my trainer, I should create a DB first but I cannot do it and I
> read all help files ! It is very important for I'm following a training
and
> I need to train myself ...
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
>
Received on Sun Aug 15 1999 - 07:54:03 CDT