Re: Extreme beginner questions

Answers inline below

Thanks for your help.

"HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2005.10.30.00.13.58.654522_at_telus.net...

>
> Never used Enterprise Manager in SS, so I couldn't answer that. However,
> Oracle's management console is called 'Oracle Enterprise Manager' and that
> might be what you want.

Where is this found?
I looked through all the menu Items that were installed, and couldn't find an Oracle Enterprise Manager. Is it a separate download?

>
> You need to expand a few things: what version of Oracle, and what version
> of Windows XP. If you have XP Home you can expect the unexpected - things
> just don't work quite right. This is especially true for a fresh install
> of XP Home, as compared to an upgrade.

Oracle 10g
WinXP Pro

> Check the Services to see whether you have someling listed like
> 'OraListenerxxxx' - the xxxx is your net service name, and probably
> matches the Instance name.

In the services, I found
OracleServiceMain (I successfully created a DB called Main), so I tried Main and it worked...thanks

> I STRONGLY encourage you to
>
> 1) Get O'Reilly book "Oracle Essentials" (oracle.oreilly.com) to help you
> get through the differences in architecture, use and terminlogy between
> the SS and Oracle.
>
> 2) Read the Installation Manual for your version of Oracle database on
> Windows. It may be boring, but it will help you avoid some of the abuse
> and confusion typical newbies face. Especially read the 'post install'
> section, as it is rather important to get the config right after the base
> install.
>
> 3) Got to http://otn.oracle.com, check out the Training menu item, and
> specifically look for "Oracle By Example" to give you a tutorial to get
> started. Be prepared to see Linux stuff, but any reasonably intelligent
> person should be able to translate between Windows and Linux stuff -
> especially after reading the install manual.
>
>
> --
> Hans Forbrich
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>
Received on Sat Oct 29 2005 - 22:52:59 CDT