Chapter 8. Installing Oracle and Creating a Database

When you install Oracle and create a database, you are setting up all of the facilities and components for running Oracle. These components include logical, physical, and memory structures. Every DBA needs to be intimately familiar with how Oracle's memory structures are allocated and managed. This chapter begins with a discussion of the basic components that make up Oracle's memory structures.

While the Oracle software itself is most likely already installed on one of your servers, we'll go over the basics of installing Oracle on the Microsoft Windows platform to see how the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) does its magic and leads you through the installation process.

After you have the Oracle software in place, you can create the Oracle database itself using Oracle's Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA). You will see how a single installation of the Oracle software can support more than one copy of a database on a particular server.