It means that Oracle is not started.
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Niall Litchfield
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"documedia lda" <documedia_at_iol.pt> wrote in message
news:1034948665.581462_at_news.iol.pt...
> Hi All,
>
> I bought "Beginner Oracle Programming", from Wrox Press, with the
intention
> to learn developing Oracle database. I download Oracle 9.0.1 Personal
> Edition for Win 98 SE, and install it in my Win XP Pro box.
> Following the instrution from authors to initialised it using SQL*Plus in
> Dos console, I wrote :
> sqlplus in Dos prompt and it returned two error
> 1- ORA-01034: ORACLE NOT AVAILABLE
> 2- ORA-27101: SHARED MEMORY DOES NOT EXIST
>
> I followed the instrution using Username: Scott and Password: Tiger
> After 3 times DB it disconnect. I tried many times, with no success.
>
> Whats wrong, please ?
> Any help much appreciate.
>
> Carlos Abreu
> Lisbon, Portugal
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Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 09:07:35 CDT
