I'm not familair with VMS, but normally you create a new copy of
initXXXX.ora and set the environment variables to point to this instance.
Then you use sqldba / servermanager to create a new database.
--
Terry Dykstra [TeamPS]
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
Duncan Reed <der1004_at_cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in article
<6buuo9$sjv$1_at_lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>...
>
> We have a development Alpha 4000 running OpenVMS 7.1 and Oracle
7.3.2.3.2.
>
> We have had a database running on this machine for three months. The
> time has come to added a second database. Fired up Oracleins to create
> a new database. It creates the scripts runs them and falls over.
>
> The reason it does is this is its connecting to the existing database
> instance, which is protect with a remote_password_file and then falls
> over.
>
> This not what I expect and it doesn't behave like this on our
> VMS 6.2/Oracle 7.1.5 machines.
>
> What going on? Am I going mad?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Duncan
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> Database Administrator | Admin Computing Unit | University of Cambridge
> Duncan Reed | ** Team AMIGA ** | der1004_at_cam.ac.uk
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Received on Thu Feb 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
