Re: Installed Oracle, how to create 1st database?

Jarmo wrote:
> This should be so obvious and yet somehow it isn't ....
>
> I've installed Oracle 9i on Linux and I've installed the admin/dev client
> components on Windows. Which client application do I use to create my first
> database? They all seem to require that a database already exists before
> they will connect. Note that I *can* connect the clients to an existing
> database on another Oracle database server.
>
> Thanks.

None of them. Schemas are not databases in Oracle. Follow Sybrand's advice.

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