Oracle UnInstall?

I installed Oracle and Oracle Lite from the "Oracle on NT" trial CD and was very annoyed by my inability to actually uninstall it! I am very interested in Oracle, but I wanted to move it to another computer and take it off my work machine only to find out that I can't seem to get the services removed from my listings and the Oracle install utility refuses to remove almost half of the installed modules. This is pretty crappy, so am I missing something? Oracle does not register itself in the Add/Remove section of NT even.

I found myself spending alot of time deleting files and working around the registry. It Oracle doesn't want to use the standard install facility they should at least not use the registry so hard and should allow a real uninstall utility. Is this something that is specific to the trial CD? Is it going to be improved for 8i (which I intend to purchase eventually)? Am I just stupid and missing something? Is ther a reason I get a million error messages when trying to remove modules like "Can't find name" when trying to remove a module?

Oracle just seems like an overly complex tool in many ways, I certainly hope Oracle gets the simple things fixed soon. A million directories with capital letters, less than 8 characters and weirdly layed out documentation is not a good way to make a product approachable.

Any reissurance would be helpful as there are many databases that are MUCH better in this respect (Informix, SQL Server, Interbase are all much better it seems.)

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Tim Triemstra ... TimTr 'at' Mindspring 'dot' Com ... Atlanta, GA

    'com.timtr.*" Home Page: http://www.mindspring.com/~timtr/ Received on Sat Oct 31 1998 - 10:52:20 CST