Re: Oracle Enterprise 10gR2 can't be installed on Windows XP/2003

Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have solved the problem! You would never believe why the error
> occurs! The problem was a special character (@) or a number in my
> password and oracle doesn't seem to be able to transfere/decode/encode
> my password.
> I'm not sure why oracle can't use special characters. Could it be
> depends on the character set? (i used the default one WE8...)
>
> Thanks a lot and i hope my mistake helps others and helps to create a
> better version of the universal-installer.
> Thomas

ALTER USER sqlu IDENTIFIED BY "t_at_is!accept0ble";

use double quotes;

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Daniel A. Morgan
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