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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

The oraparam.ini file


The oraparam.ini file can be found at <MediaMountPoint>/install/oraparam.ini. It includes definition of where the JRE environment will be taken from, which platforms are supported, and other basic validations. This file is not supposed to be modified by the user, unless explicitly requested by Oracle support. It has a general [Oracle] section where the basic OUI start-up environment is defined. There is another section named [Certified Versions] where the list of the Oracle supported platforms for the specific software distribution are supported, and other optional sections that define the particularities of each supported platform.

You can start OUI with a different oraparam.ini file. This started in Oracle 10g when Oracle Enterprise Linux first appeared as a valid platform. The Linux distro appeared when Oracle 10g R2 was already in the market. People who installed 10gR2 on this platform surprisingly found that this Oracle OS was not a supported platform. Oracle...