Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
8
Chapter
Installing Oracle and
Creating a Database
In This Chapter
Oracle disk and memory structures
◆
Installing Oracle software using OUI
◆
Creating an Oracle database using DBCA
◆
When you install Oracle and create a database, you are setting up all of
the facilities and components for running Oracle. These components
include logical, physical, and memory structures. Every DBA needs to be
intimately familiar with how Oracle's memory structures are allocated
and managed. This chapter begins with a discussion of the basic compo-
nents that make up Oracle's memory structures.
While the Oracle software itself is most likely already installed on one
of your servers, we'll go over the basics of installing Oracle on the
Microsoft Windows platform to see how the Oracle Universal Installer
(OUI) does its magic and leads you through the installation process.
After you have the Oracle software in place, you can create the Oracle
database itself using Oracle's Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).
You will see how a single installation of the Oracle software can support
more than one copy of a database on a particular server.
