Re: Oracle 8i (NT), newbie stuff

   Others probably know more about operating systems than I do. Since your 10G is on one drive, you will probably find you have the greatest flexibility with the fewest partitions. If this is just for practice you could set up the drive in five partitions so you could play with locating different files on different "drives". If it's not just for practice then keep it simple.

Van

F Joseph Kelley <jkelley_at_arches.uga.edu> wrote in message news:7ukmud$4ak$1_at_cronkite.cc.uga.edu...
> This sounds good (heck, it sounds almost _too_ good). I will be
> installing a new 10g drive for this. Are there any recommended
> partitionings? Although this is NT Workstation, not server, I _try_ to
> keep the box reasonably organized. Is it recommended/common to set up a
> special userid to do this (I would assume it is in the Unix world, but NT
> is a bit more permissive in who can do what) (obviously, this will be in
> the "administrator" group). many thanks for the advice.
> --Joe Kelley
> jkelley_at_arches.uga.edu
>
> Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com> wrote:
> : You don't have to worry about any patches to install your Oracle 8.1.5
on an
> : NT SP3 server. Since you are new, your best bet will be to first
install
> : Oracle and allow Oracle to create a sample database for you. That'll
help
> : you see where Oracle prefers to place things and what naming conventions
it
> : uses. And it will give you model tnsnames.ora, listener.ora and
sqlnet.ora
> : files. You'll also be able to see what settings have been added to your
> : registry and where. You can always get rid of the sample database
later,
> : after you've created a few of your own. And for the first few you
should
> : use the GUI database creation assistant. It does a lot of the drudge
work
> : for you, runs the post-creation scripts and even stops and restarts the
> : listener to accept your new settings.
>
> : Van
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 20 1999 - 17:40:16 CDT