All uppercase plain |
C:\ORACLE\ORA81 |
Indicates command names, SQL reserved words, and keywords, as in ALTER DATABASE. All uppercase plain is also used for directory names and file names. |
Italic |
- Used to indicate a variable:
file name
- Used to indicate the title of a guide.
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Indicates a value that you must provide. For example, if a command asks you to type file name, you must type the actual name of the file. |
Square brackets [ ] |
X:\[PATHNAME]\ORACLE\ HOME_NAME |
Encloses optional items. For example, when you create an OFA-compliant Oracle home directory, you can place an optional pathname before the \ORACLE pathname.
Square brackets also indicate a function key, for example [Enter]. |
Choose Start > |
Choose Start > Programs > Oracle - HOME_NAME > Network Administration > Net8 Assistant |
How to start a program. For example, to start Net8 Assistant, you must click the Start button on the taskbar and then choose Programs, Oracle - HOME_NAME > Network Administration > Net8 Assistant. |
C:\> |
C:\ORACLE\ORADATA> |
Represents the Windows NT command prompt of the current hard disk drive. Your prompt reflects the subdirectory in which you are working. Referred to as the MS-DOS command prompt in this guide. |
Backslash (\) before a directory name |
\ORADATA |
Indicates that the directory is a subdirectory of the root directory. |
ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE |
Go to the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\RDBMS\ADMIN directory |
In releases prior to 8.1, when you installed Oracle8i Enterprise Edition or Oracle8i for Windows NT, all subdirectories were located under a top level Oracle home directory, that by default was:
C:\ORANT for Windows NT
C:\ORAWIN95 for Windows 95
C:\ORAWIN95 for Windows 98
or whatever you may have called your Oracle home.
In this Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA)-compliant release, all subdirectories are no longer under a top level ORACLE_HOME directory. There is now a new top-level directory called ORACLE_BASE that by default is C:\ORACLE. If you install Oracle8i Enterprise Edition or Oracle8i for Windows NT release 8.1.6 on a clean computer (that is, there is no other Oracle software on the computer), the default settings for the first Oracle home directory is C:\ORACLE\ORA81. If you run Oracle Universal Installer again and install release 8.2.x, the second Oracle home directory is called \ORA82. These Oracle home directories are located directly under ORACLE_BASE. All directory path examples in this guide follow OFA conventions.
See the Oracle8i Client Administrator's Guide for Windows for additional information on OFA compliance and for information on installing Oracle products in non-OFA compliant directories. |
%ORACLE_HOME% |
SQL> @%ORACLE_HOME%\ADMIN\DB_NAME\ADHOC\CATALOG.SQL |
In SQL*Plus commands, you may see %ORACLE_HOME%. SQL*Plus is able to locate your Oracle home directory using the %ORACLE_HOME% variable. This convention can be used in Server Manager, SQL*Plus, Export Utility, and Import Utility. |
HOME_NAME |
OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener |
Represents the Oracle home name.
The home name can be up to sixteen alphanumeric characters. The only special character allowed in the home name is the underscore. |
HOMEID |
HOME0, HOME1, HOME2 |
Represents a unique registry subkey for each Oracle home directory in which you install products. A new HOMEID is created and incremented each time you install products to a different Oracle home directory on one computer. Each HOMEID contains its own configuration parameter settings for installed Oracle products. |
Symbols |
period .
comma ,
hyphen -
semicolon ;
colon :
equal sign =
backslash \
single quote '
double quote "
parentheses () |
Symbols other than brackets and vertical bars must be entered in commands exactly as shown. |