Re: "sqlplus / as sysdba" in 9iR2

meathammer wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:05:17 +0000, Chuck wrote:
> > What's XE?
> >
> > Were these both done on the same o/s? Try...
> >
> > sqlplus '/ as sysdba'
> >
> > In unix space is the argument delimted but sqlplus wants the "/ as
> > sysdba" to be a single argument so the spaces need to be escaped.
>
> XE is the free "Express Edition"
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html
>
> OS is Linux.
>
> as I experienced and "hpuxrac" pointed out,
> pre-10g one must do this: $ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
> 10g/XE one can just: $ sqlplus / as sysdba

XE is (in effect) 10g, which is where the support for

sqlplus / as sysdba

without the quotes came in.

hth
Connor

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