Oracle DBA Startup guide Post 2

Oracle Database 10g installation CD is required to do a basic installation. Minimum 4 GB free disk space and 250 MB memory is required to do the installed. It can take at around 30 minutes to install the database. It also does some system checks i.e. utility and file permission.

There are various features in instance configuration

• DBCA ( Database configuration assistance)
• Policy based database configuration
• Initialization Parameter

You can create database both using DBCA or manually from command line.

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Oracle DBA Startup guide Post 1

First task of an Oracle DBA is to install the Oracle Database. But before installing the database, DBA has to estimate the configuration of the server on which it is going to be installed. He have to keep in mind the bellow points,

1. Operation System version and compatability
2. Number and speed of the server
3. Size of the disk for configuration
4. Size of Memory( Primary as RAM)
5. Amount of space for backups

Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM) Database Control included in oracle database 10g is installed for managing local databases. You need to install OEM grid control ( from Oracle Enterprise Manager CD ) for controlling multiple hosts, database and other oracle services.

Before installing Oracle Database, Oracle Universal Installer( OUI ) does a system compatability check to confirm the hardware, free disk space, OS version and other required utility.

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