The DBCA is a friendly and very intuitive tool. Creating a database or performing any other activity is a straightforward task. However, assuming a massive deployment scenario, creating databases in the DBCA's interactive mode would be an inefficient, time consuming task, not to mention a human error prone task.

The DBCA has considered this scenario, and it can be launched in batch mode using either the command line or a response file.

This example shows how DBCA executes silently with no graphical interface displayed to the user.

dbca -silent -responseFile <response file>

The response file referred to in the previous example must be created by the user, as unlike the Oracle Universal Installer, the DBCA does not have a 'record' mode.

The next example starts DBCA in batch mode, showing the progress bar, if you want to run in character mode only use the previous example, as presenting the progress bar requires a graphical environment, you must have the DISPLAY environment...