Talk:Oracle 10g

Cleaning a bad install
If your install went wrong it's not enough to clear the files in Oracle Home, you also have a number of files scattered around your system, so don't forget to run

to identify them and clear them. Hopefully you have set your home to a dedicated partition, so the -mount option can filter out whatever you can s9imply clean by removing the dirs in it. --109.251.3.19 19:38, 1 February 2011 (GMT)

NLS_LANG in /etc/env.d/99oracle
Setting NLS_LANG is un-needed AND dangerous, since it's likely to generate trouble for boxes that are not using en_US as their language --109.251.3.19 19:38, 1 February 2011 (GMT)

About SID
SID is an 8 char string that identifies your database. You will be required to state it multiple times, so make sure you you know what you put in it. If you don't know what a SID is you can safely use database (or abcdefgh, whatever ) as a value. --109.251.3.19 19:58, 1 February 2011 (GMT)