Oracle Database Online Documentation 11g Release 1 (11.1)
Installing and Upgrading
Installation guides for Oracle Database 11g and accompanying products on various platforms are collected here.
- Full Installation Guides describe a wider variety of scenarios with more detail.
- Client Installation Guides describe installing Oracle database client software on hosts where the database server is not installed.
- Supplementary Installation Guides describe installing products that are included with the database but installed separately.
Essentials
Describes Oracle Database licensing. If you have a question about your licensing needs, please contact your Oracle sales representative or refer to the resources listed in "Related Documents" for more information.
Explains the process of planning and executing database upgrades on Oracle Database server. In addition, this guide provides information about compatibility, about upgrading applications to the current release of Oracle, and about important changes in the current release, such as initialization parameter and data dictionary changes.
Linux Installation Guides
Microsoft Windows Installation Guides
Describes how to quickly install the Oracle Database Client product on 32-bit Windows systems. It includes information about hardware and software requirements, Web Browser support, and installing the Oracle Database Client Software.
Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Clusterware for Microsoft Windows.
Solaris Installation Guides
Provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database for Solaris. This guide also talks about installing and configuring database using response files, globalization support, ports, and troubleshooting.
HP-UX Installation Guides
Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database 11g on HP-UX Itanium systems. It includes information about logging in to the System as root, checking the hardware and software requirements, creating required Operating System Groups and Users, configuring Kernel parameters, creating required directories, configuring the oracle User's environment, mounting the product disc, installing Oracle Database, and installing Oracle Database examples.
Provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database for HP-UX. This guide covers Optimal Flexible Architecture, Database Storage Options, and Database Configuration Options. This guide also talks about installing and configuring database using response files, globalization support, ports, and troubleshooting.
Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on HP-UX Itanium systems. It includes information about logging in to the System as root, checking the hardware and software requirements, creating required Operating System Group and User, creating an Oracle Base directory, configuring the oracle User's environment, mounting the product disc, and installing Oracle Client.
Provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database for HP-UX. This guide also talks about installing and configuring database using response files, globalization support, ports, and troubleshooting.
AIX Installation Guides
Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database 11g on AIX system. It includes information about logging in to the System as root, checking the hardware and software requirements, creating required Operating System Groups and Users, configure Shell limits and System configuration parameters, creating required directories, configuring the Oracle User's environment, running the rootpre.sh Script, mounting the product disc, installing Oracle database, and installing Oracle Database examples.
Provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database for AIX. This guide covers Optimal Flexible Architecture, Database Storage Options, and Database Configuration Options. This guide also talks about installing and configuring database using response files, globalization support, ports, and troubleshooting.
Describes how to quickly install Oracle Client 11g on AIX system. It includes information about logging in to the System as root, checking the hardware and software requirements, creating required Operating System Groups and Users, creating required directories, configuring the oracle User's environment, mounting the product disc, and installing Oracle Client.
Provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database for AIX. This guide also talks about installing and configuring database using response files, globalization support, ports, and troubleshooting.
Supplementary Installation Guides
Products installed separately from the database.
Provides information on determining hardware and software requirements, installing, configuring, or administering an Oracle Database Gateway for APPC, developing applications that access remote host databases through the gateway using either the SNA communication protocol or the TCP/IP for IMS Connect communication protocol, determining security requirements, determining and resolving problems.
Provides information on determining hardware and software requirements, installing, configuring, or administering an Oracle Database Gateway for APPC, developing applications that access remote host databases through the gateway using either the SNA communication protocol or the TCP/IP for IMS Connect communication protocol, determining security requirements, determining and resolving problems.
Describes the installation and configuration of Oracle Transparent Gateway for IMS, VSAM, and Adabas, which enables Oracle client applications to access IMS, VSAM, and Adabas data through Structured Query Language (SQL). The gateway, with the Oracle Database, creates the appearance that all data is located on a local Oracle Database, even though the data can be widely distributed.
Describes the installation and configuration of Oracle Database Gateway for IMS, VSAM, and Adabas, which enables Oracle client applications to access IMS, VSAM, and Adabas data through Structured Query Language (SQL). The gateway, with the Oracle Database, creates the appearance that all data is located on a local Oracle Database, even though the data can be widely distributed.