Re: How to create the seed database?

Peter wrote:

>
> When you ask me to read the manuals, of course, you are not telling me
> to read the whole thing, but just the relevant parts. I usually reread
> the parts of the manuals that I need to know.
>
> With regard to the definition of "instance", I was just looking it up
> in the glossary of the manual.
>
> Thanks

Why don't we try to stop this silliness right now.

Peter: read what Daniel *actually* wrote, not what you think he wrote. Daniel said that a *SQL SERVER* instance = Oracle instance+database files. And as such, his definition was spot on. What you *thought* he had written was that "an instance" involved database files, and you naturally thought he was talking about an *ORACLE* instance. In which case, your definition would have been correct.

Why Daniel thought a reference to SQL Server was needed remains a bit of a mystery, but it's probably because the sorts of questions you are prone to asking indicate some familiarity with SQL Server, and not with the quite different Oracle concepts and terminology.

But regardless, since Daniel wasn't referring to an Oracle instance, he was actually correct. But who really cares... we might as well have a discussion about whose penis is bigger for all the difference it makes to resolving Oracle-related problems.

Right. Now that's out of the way...

What's your actual problem? And have you actually read what I wrote in an earlier reply, and carried it out?

To summarise. If you want HR data, you will find it inside whatever database got created when you installed Oracle. And if you didn't create a database during the install, DBCA will quite happily create you such a database (identical to the one you *would* have got during the install) that will contain within it the HR schema, along with all his tables and sample data. You just have to ask for it on the appropriate screen of the Assistant.

Regards
HJR

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