Installing Oracle in xp=home,

or, you may also down load this suit. If at all, there is a future change in this download, I would stick with database so that during this tutorials if you may need to brush-up your SQL+ quires which is very similar to Mysql or Access quires , you may start right way. I would try to cover Oracle forms and Java as needed with the tutorials for Oracle Hands on.

Going through with the permission and licensees

I usually download everything in a designated computer ( that is a part of my intranet setup); it is your free will to download wherever you like, my day to day life takes me many application and compilers, I keep it approachable by name of the vendor, here as it goes with the oracle.

While waiting for the downloads, ( if you are downloading with broad band, would prefer to download the library, on the side. The oracle dodumentation is mostly very descriptive and have patience,  I like diagrammatic representations of the architecture as far as possible. At the end of this experience of

Downloaded and unzipped

installing

password is Manas6

prerequiste passed

Checking operating system requirements ...

Expected result: One of 4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1,5.2
Actual Result: 5.1
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking service pack requirements ...

Expected result: 1
Actual Result: 2
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking physical memory requirements ...

Expected result: 256MB
Actual Result: 1014MB
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking Network Configuration requirements ...

Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
Problem: The install has detected that the primary IP address of the system is DHCP-assigned.
Recommendation: Oracle supports installations on systems with DHCP-assigned IP addresses; However, before you can do this, you must configure the Microsoft LoopBack Adapter to be the primary network adapter on the system. See the Installation Guide for more details on installing the software on systems configured with DHCP.
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Validating ORACLE_BASE location (if set) ...

Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking Oracle Home path for spaces...

Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking Oracle Home path for location ...

Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking for proper system clean-up....

Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
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Checking for Oracle Home incompatibilities ....
 
 

The roacle services in xp

Enterprise Manager Database Control URL - (orcl) :

http://Manas6:1158/em

Your database configuration files have been installed in C:\oracle\product\10.2.0 while other components selected for installation have been installed in C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1. Be cautious not to accidentally delete these configuration files.

The iSQL*Plus URL is:

http://Manas6:5560/isqlplus  (current user scott and pwd tiger)

The iSQL*Plus DBA URL is:

http://Manas6:5560/isqlplus/dba
 

the above result is reproducible, with sql-pus console.

now test

name : system password: Manas6 // that it created during my installation.

I received Liscence agrement


 

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iSQL is newer that SQL+, and can be used over IE. It has all the functions like SQL+