Oracle at DESY - working environment

Oracle client software at DESY is deployed centrally on Unix/AFS and Windows systems.

Unix/AFS
Windows NT/XP
Testing the connection

Supported are on Unix/AFS systems the following operation systems at DESY

Linux (>= DL3)
Solaris (>= Solaris 7)

Old, existing installations on HP/UX, SGI and AIX are merely AS IS deployed.

On the unix platforms you can get the Oracle environment as follows:

$ . oraenv In this case the following environment variables are set or adjusted: ORACLE_HOME
TWO_TASK
PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Windows NT/XP

On Windows NT/XP systems you can get the Oracle working environment by navigating through the following menus: Start -> NETINSTALL-PROGRAMS -> NETINSTALL -> INSTALLer AND UNINSTALLER -> Database Then you have to click on the Oracle product you like to install. You have the choice between: Developer 2000
Oracle Utilities
SQL*Plus After this step the following registry keys are set or adjusted: ORA_HOME
LOCAL
NLS_LANG
PATH

Testing the connection

To test the connection to the database, please try the following: $ sqlplus scott/tiger@desy Using the command quit will finish your Oracle session.

Last update: 06. Aug. 2004