Re: oracle's use of NT Registry

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:00:37 -0000
Message-ID: <95m14l$42h$1@soap.pipex.net>

"Ed Stevens" <ed.stevens_at_home.com> wrote in message news:95f5gt$jn0$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> 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! ;-)
<snip>
> 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?"

There is a small file in %ORACLE_HOME%\BIN called oracle.key which contains the registry key path. I don't have multiple homes on this machine so I cannot check if there is a similar such file for each home, but that would be a reasonable surmise.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Mon Feb 05 2001 - 05:00:37 CST