CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL Installation of Oracle 10g Release 2 Client SQL*Plus December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus The series of slides will detail the installation instructions for Oracle Developer Suite 10g SQL*Plus client tools Follow the steps detailed on the following slides December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Click this button December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Will Check your system configuration to determine if you have sufficient CPU, space and memory and available display colours December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Click Next December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Accept defaults and click Next December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Select the Runtime option and click Product Languages December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Select English if it is not already here, then click OK December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Select Runtime Radio Button then Click Next to Continue December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus If for some reason you were to install this again you would end up seeing different values here. It will always give a new Name and Path with each install. An install can be removed, but talk to me first on how to remove an installation of the client. Click Next to Continue December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Make sure all checks have a status of Succeeded Click Next to Continue December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Click Install to begin installation December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus This will likely give the appearance it has stalled during installation, click the Minimize button December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Under the previous screen you should see this screen, click Next to continue December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Do not be alarmed, it did not do anything for you, we will finish the Oracle Net configuration manually, Click Finish December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Click Exit December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Confirm you wish to Exit December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus You will see a new menu item for the Oracle 10g Client Under the sub-menu you will see Application Development SQL*Plus is in this menu option You can create a shortcut on your Desktop if you wish New Menu Items added, and location of the SQL*Plus menu selection December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Note the location of the above directory, a file called tnsnames.ora needs to be added in order to connect to the database It can be added manually, this file is made available to you, and needs to be copied to this location December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus tnsnames.ora is a file that directs the client to the available servers It can be built manually or by using the configuration assistant This is what our tnsnames.ora file contains tnsnames.ora is a file that directs the client to the available servers It can be built manually or by using the configuration assistant This is what our tnsnames.ora file contains You will be shown how to access a copy of this file December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus The tnsnames.ora file has to be copied to this directory after you have downloaded the file You will then need to verify you can connect to the database December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Select the SQL*Plus menu item December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus On the next screen you are required to connect to the database server You have an account on the database server, this will allow you to connect to that account Your logon ID is your HCnet ID that has been supplied to you (abcd0000) in this format The initial password supplied to you is ORACLE (it is not case sensitive) The Host String needs to match an entry in the tnsnames.ora file, in your case this is GROK (it is not case sensitive) An alternate database is available called MUNRO You will see both entries in the tnsnames.ora file December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus If you see this screen you have been successful December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus Enter the commands shown at the SQL prompt If your environment does not agree with these values please let me know This will affect how some of the commands work in SQL Specifically NLS_DATE_FORMAT and NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus If you did not see the previous screen you likely received an error message In the event you did receive an error message please contact me, do not call the Humber help desk, they cannot help you with any issues around Oracle If you receive an error message trying to connect I need to know the error code and its message in order to resolve your problem If you email me and say “I have an error”, but neglect to tell me what the error is there is nothing I can do for you, believe me this has happened many times every semester December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL

CPAN 260 Database – Installation of SQL*Plus This ends the installation You are now ready to use SQL commands to talk to the database December, 2006 CPAN 260 Relational Database Design and SQL