Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:17:28 -0800 From: DA Morgan Organization: Puget Sound Oracle Users Group User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Create directory as '.......' References: <1165919198.782191.261650@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1165919198.782191.261650@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1165943847.524035@bubbleator.drizzle.com> Cache-Post-Path: bubbleator.drizzle.com!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 26 X-Complaints-To: abuse@csolutions.net Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:419025 X-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:17:27 EST (text.usenetserver.com) rohan wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm trying to create directory with instruction create directory HOME > as 'C:\Oracle\home' . > > I receive from Oracle information 'Directory was created'" but I can't > find it in the path C:\Oracle\home > ( neither through browser nor through "cd C:\Oracle\home" and "dir" ) > > Does it mean that such a directory is " invisible" and it can't go into > it with a normal browser because in reality it's a different form of > directory ? I'm just begin to learn Oracle and that's why my question > is simple... > > Regards, Peter W. CREATE DIRECTORY creates a directory object inside the database. It does not affect the file system. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org