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Solaris Hostname – Oracle 9iAS »

In /etc/hosts, I had the host information in the following format:

1.1.1.1 hostname hostname.domain loghost

Oracle 9iAS complained about the above format and would not proceed until I changed it to:

1.1.1.1 hostname.domain hostname loghost

Oracle X – XDK »

• Java based XML PL/SQL packages like XMLParser, XMLDOM and XSLProcessor are deprecated and are not included in Oracle 10g.
• You should use DBMS_XMLGEN instead of DBMS_XMLQUERY and DBMS_XMLSTORE instead of DBMS_XMLSAVE as DBMS_XMLGEN and DBMS_XMLSTORE are C based Packages.

Installing Oracle on Solaris: »

• Verify that all required Solaris packages -SUNWarc , SUNWlibms, SUNWi1of, SUNWbtool, SUNWsprot, SUNWi1cs,,SUNWhea , SUNWsprox , SUNWi15cs, SUNWlibm, SUNWtoo, SUNWxwfnt are installed. You find all these packages on Solaris CD – Disk2.

• Make changes to Kernel parameters – Edit /etc/system file using vi and set shared memory parameters.

• If you made changes to /etc/system file, you need to reboot the machine.

• Kick off runInstaller