Re: Software Owner for Oracle8 and Oracle9

"Harald Maier" <maierh_at_myself.com> wrote in message news:m33cfqqgcf.fsf_at_ate.maierh...
> Kalle <kk.kk_at_kk.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have currently a debate ongoing on the Unix side about the issue
> > of having 1 Oracle software owner for both Oracle 8 and 9 versus
> > having a new software owner for 9.
> >
> > What comments you have, w hat might be advantages and disadvantages
> > using one or two users...
>
> I have installed Oracle 8 and 9 under one oracle user. The login
> envrironment is set to Oracle 9.
>
> Advantages:
>
> - Don't need to change the startup procedure. At startup I am starting
> Oracle9 lsnrctl and startup the databases with dbstart from
> Oracle9.
>
> ,----[ oratab ]
> | first:/opt/oracle/8.1.7:Y
> | test:/opt/oracle/9.2.0:Y
> `----
>
> Disadvantages:
>
> - For maintaining the different installations and databases I have to
> switch to the specific environment, but I am not sure whether this
> is a disadvantage. You may create a bash function that switches the
> environment.
>
> Harald

Thats what oraenv is for

I personally prfer one user as its just more things to maintain otherwise Received on Mon Aug 25 2003 - 08:11:35 CDT