Re: TWO VERSIONS OF ORACLE ON SAME VMS MACHINE
Date: 11 Jan 1995 20:58:59 GMT
Message-ID: <3f1gqj$f00_at_uuneo.neosoft.com>
rjen_at_rvax.syntex.com wrote:
: Create a new directory that will be your new ora_root. When you install the
: new oracle version here, give it a different image identifier letter (I believe
: the default is either S or V7, so make it something like T). This way, your
: new oracle images will have names like ORACLET, CORET, etc., and both sets of
: images can be installed in memory. Some tools will no longer be installable,
: since they will have the same names under VMS and will confuse the machine,
: such as SQLPLUS and SQLREP, etc. Do not install these tools in memory.
: You will have to "fiddle with logicals and/or symbols" for the two different
: versions. For example, you will want to run the correct ORAUSER.COM before
: connecting to one version or the other. There are more details depending on
: your specific situation, but this should get you well on your way.
At a site we had Oracle 6 & 7 running on the smae machine. The make switching easier for users, .COM files were created to set the symbols and logicals to the appropriate vales and execute the the right Oracle COM files. This worked very well. This was also done to switch instances within the same version of the Oracle RDBMS.
Steven Whatley
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