Re: Oracle & Solaris : several oracle product installation

From: <srivenu_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 9 Nov 2005 07:48:57 -0800
Message-ID: <1131551337.072269.257550@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

You did not specify which OS you were using. For ex - in Solaris the inventory location is pointed to by the oraInst.loc file typically located in /var/opt/oracle. Normally you can put in the locations of all your locations in that file and comment out all of them.
When you want to work on one location, you uncomment that one location.

In windows (from 10g) all inventory locations are identified in the central inventory in inventory.xml (typically located in C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\ContentsXML)

Sometimes (say in a development or test environment) you might want to use different homes for the same version of Oracle used by different applications.
You might want to patch or upgrade oracle for one application without affecting other applications.
regards
srivenu Received on Wed Nov 09 2005 - 09:48:57 CST