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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

Overview of this book

Does your database look complicated? Are you finding it difficult to interact with it? Database interaction is a part of the daily routine for all database professionals. Using Oracle Utilities the user can benefit from improved maintenance windows, optimized backups, faster data transfers, and more reliable security and in general can do more with the same time and resources.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Silent installation mode


By default OUI performs an interactive installation. This is not a practical approach if the user is to repetitively perform the same installation over and over again. A batch approach is more suitable in this case. Installing in batch mode requires the user to create a response file, this file can either be created from the available response files in the installation media or it can be created out of an actual installation.

The response file structure and syntax

The response file is a plain text format file encoded in US7ASCII character set. It contains a set of variables defined in the form of VariableName=value format. The variables can be of String, Boolean, Number or StringList type.

In the case of variables that don't have a default value and are required for a silent install to be successful, they have a place holder value <Value Required>. For all other variables which don't have a default value but are considered as optional, the value is labelled...