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Hello Amish
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"Amish Shah" <email_amishs_at_yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I'm trying to create a new database manually, and I'm having trouble
> connecting to SQLPlus. I've set my new SID and try to "connect / as
> sysdba". This is a Win2K Prof. machine and I am in the appropriate
> Oracle admin groups.
>
> Is it possible to connect to SQLPlus as sysdba without having a
> database created?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Amish.
Did you create the database service with the "oradim" command first? On NT you can not (unlike UNIX) just "sqlplus / as sysdba, startup".
Have a nice day
Gregor
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Gregor J. Theis (3x ORACLE OCP DBA 8, 8i, 9i)Received on Wed Nov 13 2002 - 13:54:27 CST