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Oracle Tutorials - Creating New Database Instance Manually

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This is a collection of 15 FAQs for Oracle DBA on creating Oracle database instances manually using CREATE DATABASE statement. Items in this FAQ collection are organized together to form a complete tutorial guide on creating a new database instance manually. Topics included in this FAQ are:

1. How To Create an Oracle Database?
2. How To Create an Oracle Database Manually?
3. How To Select an Oracle System ID (SID)?
4. How To Establish Administrator Authentication to the Server?
5. How To Create an Initialization Parameter File?
6. How To Connect the Oracle Server as SYSDBA?
7. How To Create a Server Parameter File?
8. How To Start an Oracle Instance?
9. How To Start a Specific Oracle Instance?
10. How To Start Instance with a Minimal Initialization Parameter File?
11. How To Run CREATE DATABASE Statement?
12. How To Do Clean Up If CREATE DATABASE Failed?
13. How To Run CREATE DATABASE Statement Again?
14. How To Create Additional Tablespaces for an New Database?
15. How To Build Data Dictionary View of an New Database?

Sample scripts presented in this FAQ are based Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) for Windows. The script in Step 7 failed due some unknown reason. But it might work on Oracle 10g Standard Edition.

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