Re: Newbie question

Oracle is a complex RDBMS and you will need to read the Manuals ( Particularly the server concepts and Server Sql ones ), but to start simply, the installation should have given you the option of creating a database - if not, re-install ( or run the Creatdb.sql script ) - in my opinion letting the install program do it is safer.

After that, find an Oracle class somewhere and take the Intro and DBA courses

The programs you found are administrative utilities for use after the DB is set up.

Good luck,
John Greco
Oracle DBA ( Novell 4.11 and Oracle 7.3.2 )

ap874_at_torfree.net (Nick Carter) wrote:

>Hello Gurus,
>
>I am a newbie at Oracle and have just installed Workgroup Server 7.x on
>Windows NT 3.51 server. Installstation seems to have gone smoothly. But
>I am not sure what to do now. I need to create a test database, but don't
>know how. I know that the softwares comes with a scripts for creating a
>demo database, but I don't know how to invoke it, ie where to do it from?
>I checked in ORANT/bin and see a few programs that might be useful, like
>'sqldba71.exe' but when I ran it I got a screenful that I can't understand.
>I also notice there is a program called 'oracle71.exe', which I ran, but
>I got my prompt back without much happening.
>
>Could someone be kind enough to show me what I need to do just to get
>started? Even just showing me how to create a simple demo database is
>a lot of help.
>
>Thanks very much
Received on Mon Sep 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT