Re: Oracle on Windows

DA Morgan wrote:

> Comment in-line.
>
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
> > DA Morgan wrote:
> > > Preston wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you're using DBCA to uninstall Oracle then I'm not surprised
> > > > ;-)
> > >
> > > I don't but I believe the OP did.
> >
> > But you did say
> >
> > "Not from my experience. There are more than a handful of times
> > I've used DBCA to uninstall Oracle on Windows ... and then had to
> > manually clean up the remaining mess."
> >
> > Was this just wrong, hyperbole or what?
>
> Perhaps it is lack of scotch but I fail to see the conflict. I often
> use DBCA in teaching because students have Windows (even once or
> twice for commercial purposes).

The "conflict" is due to the fact that you don't seem to know what the DBCA is. It's for creating, managing & deleting databases, & has nothing to do with "uninstalling Oracle on Windows". Hence my tongue-in-cheek comment about not being surprised if you had problems trying to use it to uninstall Oracle.

I really can't believe you didn't know that though, so just assumed you're having a particularly hard week, or have had an excess of scotch rather than lack of! If you genuinely didn't know the difference between the DBCA & the Universal Installer, I really don't think you should be commenting on 'Oracle on Windows' at all...

> My experience is that the uninstall,
> with Windows, often does not fully clean up the registry and
> definitely does not fully clean up ORACLE_HOME.

This is true, but I can see we'll just have to agree to differ over who's fault that is. The fact that thousands of other applications manage it ok is proof enough for me though.

-- 
Preston.