Re: help oracle8i installation...

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"george habr" <george-h_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:39CF4F58.447A7E9C_at_sympatico.ca...
> Hi all,
> I'm an oracle DBA student .
> I'm trying to install oracle8i personal edition. but I have trouble with
 it
> during installation it will ask me for
> Globale batabase name: ????
>
> SID: ???
> I don't have any database before ...
> what should I do ?
> if you have any kind of information who to install the oracle8i please
 reply
> thanks again ....

Well, I'll try to add some "theory"... To learn the ways of a Oracle DBA, you have many things to study and practice before you can use the force wisely ;-)

An Oracle database management system is made up of two things: an instance and a database. The instance, through wich you access a database, is associated with one (and only one) database. The instance identifier is SID. The database is the physical part (files) and is identified by DB_NAME. The name is used e.g. in the statement 'create database <db_name>'. Unless adviced otherwise, the SID and DB_NAME used should be the same.

In a network of databases you add a domain to the database, DB_DOMAIN (defaults to "world"), to identify it globally, hence the global database name (GLOBAL_DB_NAME=DB_NAME.DB_DOMAIN). Default is "orcl.world".

Regards,
/fad
(these are ofcourse my own, possibly flawed, interpretation. hopefully someone will point out and correct any mistakes herein) Received on Mon Sep 25 2000 - 18:04:20 CDT