Re: Oracle 8.0.5 error
From: S. Anthony Sequeira <nobody_at_127.0.0.1>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:56:19 +0100
Message-ID: <4dfc5a23$0$2494$db0fefd9_at_news.zen.co.uk>
On 18/06/11 00:52, John Hurley wrote:
> Dan:
>
>> John,
>> I did start again yesterday, I reinstalled Oracle from scratch and
>> rebuild the database. No luck. When I try to just delete the
>> database via the database configuration assistant, it fails because it
>> can't log onto it's own utility (probably svrmgr30) to do the drop.
>> So I'm stymied.
>
> I don't do oracle on windows so my knowledge is fairly limited. I
> think you need to do something special to get rid of the Oracle
> "services" that windows uses ( should be pretty well documented in the
> Oracle documentation ) and/or registry entries.
>
> Some special command to get rid of the windows oracle services do some
> googling around if necessary. ( Oradim maybe ? ).
>
> A unix install can be cleaned up just by deleting files and
> directories ( everything is a file in unix right ) but windows has
> complications.
>
>
> # I don't think 8.0 can build databases with sqlplus. I'm pretty sure
> that "sqlplus /nolog" and "connect / as sysdba" started in 9i.
>
> connect internal
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:56:19 +0100
Message-ID: <4dfc5a23$0$2494$db0fefd9_at_news.zen.co.uk>
On 18/06/11 00:52, John Hurley wrote:
> Dan:
>
>> John,
>> I did start again yesterday, I reinstalled Oracle from scratch and
>> rebuild the database. No luck. When I try to just delete the
>> database via the database configuration assistant, it fails because it
>> can't log onto it's own utility (probably svrmgr30) to do the drop.
>> So I'm stymied.
>
> I don't do oracle on windows so my knowledge is fairly limited. I
> think you need to do something special to get rid of the Oracle
> "services" that windows uses ( should be pretty well documented in the
> Oracle documentation ) and/or registry entries.
>
> Some special command to get rid of the windows oracle services do some
> googling around if necessary. ( Oradim maybe ? ).
>
> A unix install can be cleaned up just by deleting files and
> directories ( everything is a file in unix right ) but windows has
> complications.
>
>
> # I don't think 8.0 can build databases with sqlplus. I'm pretty sure
> that "sqlplus /nolog" and "connect / as sysdba" started in 9i.
>
> connect internal
To remove Oracle services:
Delete any references to Oracle services left behind in the following part of the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Ora*
Total clean of Oracle install, one of many URLs
http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/oracle/howto_uninstall_oracle9i.htm
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