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Evan today there are still issues with these multiple homes. For example you have to install Designer in its own home and that must be the default home. Oracle has not been consistent as to what can be installed where over the years.
"Doug Coan" <dcoan_at_aegonusa.com> wrote in message
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> In article <95f5gt$jn0$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Ed Stevens <ed.stevens_at_home.com> wrote:
> > We are a bit confused about some of the uses Oracle makes of the NT
> > Registry. (Well, actually I am confused about a lot of things, most
of
> > which have nothing to do with Oracle, but that's a different story!
;-)
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> > Specifically, we're wondering why the same string values appear in
> > HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE and also in HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0 -- and,
in
> > a multi-home system, in HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME1 thru HOMEn.
> >
> > Of particular interest is the use of TNS_ADMIN to point to
TNSNAMES.ORA
> > and SQLNET.ORA. We have had some inconsistent results in trying to
> > determine which leaf of the registry is being used. This may be a
poor
> > example of the more general question because TNS_ADMIN is not created
by
> > default at installation time. But the general question becomes "how
> > does Oracle determine which registry leaf (\ORACLE vs. \ORACLE\HOMEx)
it
> > is going to look to for any particular key value?" And as a follow-on
> > question, " if it is always going to look in \ORACLE\HOMEx, why does
it
> > bother putting any string values at all in \ORACLE ?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > --
> > - Ed Stevens
> >
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