Re: creating db using dbca not seeing pop-up screens

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:49:55 +0000
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I'm with Alan on this one, take the trouble to get your dbca templates correct and have deployment methods a dba who isn't familiar with the scripts can understand. Same database every time seems like a smart plan to me. I don't agree about tetris though :) On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) < Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.ny.gov> wrote:

> All,
>
> I'll do you one even better.
>
> Use dbca once to create the scripts to create the database. Save/modify
> the scripts and run sqlplus on the server to create the database.
>
> Use these scripts as a template going forward.
>
> I dislike dbca simply because it creates way to many extra schemas that I
> will never use. And dropping those schemas after the fact is too risky.
> Not creating them initially is the better way to go for me.
>
> Of course, this goes to individual preference!
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: creating db using dbca not seeing pop-up screens
>
> I'll give the unhelpful advice again:
> use response files. Even for dbca.
>
> It'll take you about 10 minutes to modify an existing template (which is
> installed automatically with the RDBMS) and you simply run runInstaller
> -silent -responseFile <full path to rsp> (you can even use nohup) and go
> play tetris for a while. when you come back the database is there. I got
> used to this when the speed I got from using either vnc o xming and putty
> was so unacceptably slow that it took about 5 minutes for each click. So
> the gui dbca or oui were unsuable... also, now I got a copy of every
> response file I've ever used and it's much easier to have a standar install
> that way.
>
> hth
> cheers
> Alan.-
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