"Learning As Much As I Can" <jctown_at_nb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>
> Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> > On 23 Jul 2006 15:40:40 -0700, "Learning As Much As I Can"
> > <jctown_at_nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Robbert van der Hoorn wrote:
> > >--------snip-------
> > >
> > >> Please remember that the SID of an XE database is ALWAYS XE
!!!!!!!!!!!
> > >
> > >What does the XE mean? Express Edition? How does one know what the
> > >SID is when one installs an Oracle instance?
> >
> >-----------snap---------------
> > You can also identify when you look at the Windows services names
> > starting with OracleService. Guess what the last letters are?
> > Anyway, it is all written down for you in the Getting Started Manual,
> > which you obviously didn't read.
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
> There was no opportunity to provide the XE to the install.
>
Right, and that's why it is ALWAYS XE. And yes, it means eXpress Edition.
And that's why (but not only why) there can be only one Express Edition
database on a single machine....
Please keep learning as much as you can.... but try reading the text on
screen while installing your software too.
Robbert
Received on Mon Jul 24 2006 - 17:54:12 CDT
