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Installing the Oracle Binaries

Oracle installations can be large, complex, and cumbersome. This is one reason you usually ask an Oracle DBA to install the software. You want somebody who has previously performed installations and knows how to troubleshoot when problems arise. For this reason, installing the Oracle software (binaries) is a task that every DBA must be proficient with.

For whatever reason, many DBAs don't use techniques for automating installations. Either they're unaware of these methods or they perceive the automated methods to be unreliable. Therefore, most DBAs typically use the graphical mode of the Oracle ...

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