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Ed Stevens wrote:
> Had something arise yesterday I had never given much thought to. Our
> server admin was installing Oracle 9.2 on a Solaris box and told me he
> had named the oracle home 'xxxx' (where 'xxxx' was a reference to the
> application that will be using the db). The was not the directory
> referenced by $ORACLE_HOME, but the 'oracle home name'.
>
> Now, I know that when installing on Windows, the oracle home name gets
> set into the registry and is referenced by the 'oracle home selector'
> application. However, at our shop all software installs on the unix
> side are done by unix server admins, so I had never had any reason to
> give this bit any thought. I told the admin that we normally give the
> home a name that reflects the version of Oracle -- Ora81, Ora92, etc.
> But that also raised the question of where this information is stored
> on Unix, and where is it actually used?
The Oracle Home name matters for the Universal Installer, whatever the
platform. If you have multiple ORACLE_HOMES, the home name is how the
installer differentiates between them. Matters for patch application
and backout using OUI or OPatch.
td Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 13:07:40 CDT