Re: How many ORACLE_HOME values are there supposed to be?

How Oracle operates is the key to its stability, so ignoring those chapters of the 'concepts' manual isn't the way to go. If you don't take time to read and understand the entire concepts manual, you'll never fully understand how Oracle works.

Anyway, you can have multiple oracle homes depending on what components you have installed (I have two here, another one with 3). So it is possible.

Jay G. Scott wrote:
> i'm a newbie.
>
> i got directed to the "concepts" manual earlier. took a look at it.
> a huge chunk of it is basically "Oracle's version of postgres",
> ie, a whole lot of stuff about how oracle operates once it's
> up and running, ie, SQL. ignoring those chapters, i picked out and
> printed the chapters i thought would be of some use to me.
> that turned out to be: 1,3,5-6,8-9,22-23. 22-23 are
> security, and i expect those will be of some use eventually.
>
> i looked at the others closely enough to see they weren't going
> to help.
>
> how many different values of ORACLE_HOME are there supposed to be?
> i have to install the application server, too, and it seems to
> indicate that there needs to be an ORACLE_HOME value for
> the infrastructure and the application server. i can't remember now
> if they're all supposed to be distince DB, IAS, and infrastructure,
> and that's part of what i'm asking. will i need three?
>
> if i cruise through the response files for the DB alone, there's
> at least five places to enter a value for ORACLE_HOME. i guess they
> need to be the same, because I don't get prompted five or more times
> during an interactive install. is my surmise correct?
>
> and another thing, is ORACLE_HOME going to be used to set the PATH
> variable? is it just important during the install?
>
> seems like there needs to be something that lets me decide these
> questions without trying to tease it out.
>
Received on Wed Mar 12 2003 - 14:59:16 CST