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1 Introducing Oracle8i Personal Edition for Windows 98

Oracle8i Personal Edition Overview

Supported Operating Systems

New on Windows 98 in this Release

New Features

What Documentation Do I Read First?

Viewing Documentation on the CD-ROM

2 Installation Overview

What Is Oracle Universal Installer?

What Top-Level Components are Available for Installation?

Installing Components with Oracle Universal Installer

How Do I Get Started?

3 Installation Requirements

Top-Level Component System Requirements

Migrating and Upgrading Requirements

Oracle7 and Oracle8 Migration and Upgrade Requirements

Migrating from Releases Prior to 7.1.3.3.6

Using Oracle Command Line Tools with the Migration Utility

Required Oracle7 Server SQL*Net Patch Releases

Networking Protocol Vendor Requirements

4 Selecting Database Creation and Net8 Configuration Methods

Understanding Your Methods Before Installation

Selecting a Database Creation Method

Selecting a Net8 Configuration Method

Server Network Configuration

5 Installing Oracle Components

Preinstallation Tasks

Installing Oracle Components

Oracle8i Typical or Minimal Installation

Oracle8i Custom Installation

Reviewing a Log of an Installation Session

Installing Oracle Components in Non-Interactive Mode

Copying and Modifying a Response File

Running Oracle Universal Installer and Specifying a Response File

Customizing Installations with Oracle Software Packager

Installing and Viewing the Oracle8i Online Documentation

6 Reviewing Your Installed Starter Database Contents

User Names and Passwords

Database Identification

Tablespaces and Data Files

Initialization Parameter File

Redo Log Files

Control Files

Rollback Segments

Data Dictionary

7 Post-installation Configuration Tasks

Validating Invalid PL/SQL Modules with the UTLRP.SQL Script

Configuring Additional Components

8 Deinstalling Oracle Components

Deinstalling Oracle Components with Oracle Universal Installer

Task 1: Deinstall Database, Net8 Components and Registry Entries

Task 2: Deinstall Components with Oracle Universal Installer

Manually Removing all Oracle Components and Services from Your Computer

Removing Components on Windows 98

A Individual Components Available for Installation

Oracle8i Personal Edition Components

B Individual Component Descriptions

Component Descriptions

C National Language Support

NLS_LANG Parameters

Commonly Used Values for NLS_LANG

NLS_LANG Settings in MS-DOS Mode and Batch Mode

D Getting Started with Your Documentation

Documentation Formats

What Documentation did I receive?

Online Documentation Set

Oracle8i for Windows, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Generic Documentation Master Index, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Server, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Server Application Development, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Server Networking, Release 8.1.6

SQL*Plus, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Java Developer's Documentation, Release 8.1.6

Glossary

Index