Preface

This guide and Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for HP OpenVMS Itanium provides instructions for installing and configuring Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on HP OpenVMS Itanium systems.

Documentation for the products that are included with this software is available in the Oracle Database generic documentation set.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for anyone responsible for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on HP OpenVMS Itanium systems.

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Related Documentation

Information about system administration and tuning for a production database system is provided in the following documents:

Information about upgrading from a previous version of Oracle Database is provided in Oracle Database Upgrade Guide.

The platform-specific documentation for Oracle Database 11g products includes the following manuals:

You can review these documents at

http://docs.oracle.com/en/database/database.html

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