Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
At Scott's widget company, the DBA, Janice, needs to install a second Oracle
server on a Microsoft Windows platform. She runs the program setup.exe
from an Oracle installation CD image on disk. The first OUI screen past the Wel-
come screen appears, as shown below, prompting Janice for the file locations
where the Oracle software should be installed. The source for the install is
already specified as a directory location on drive D:.
Oracle Home
A common directory location used to
store the associated program files for a
specific release of the Oracle database
software.
If there are previous installations of Oracle on this server, the pathnames are
shown in the Destination section of this OUI screen. In this example, there is an exist-
ing installation of Oracle9
i
in the directory F:\Oracle\9i. Janice wants to install
the newer Oracle Database 10
g
software into the directory F:\Oracle\10g2, so she
changes the entry in the Path text box to F:\Oracle\10g2, changes the name in the
Oracle Home text box to OraHome10g2, and clicks the Next button.
On nearly all of the screens in an installation using OUI, there is a button
labeled Installed Products, which allows the DBA to view and uninstall other
products already installed on this server.
After the product list is retrieved from the CD in drive D:, OUI displays the
available products that can be installed from the CD. Janice chooses to install the
Oracle Database 10
g
Enterprise Edition and clicks the Next button.
