Installation Choices

Installation Choices The Oracle Universal Installer guides you through an interview phase that asks you to specify your choices for installation and database creation.

The exact sequence of pages depends on your platform. All platforms include the following choices: What database product do you want to install? You can install one of the following: Oracle Enterprise Edition—Oracle’s most full featured database product providing data management for high-end applications.

Oracle Standard Edition—A less-expensive and somewhat scaled down version of the Oracle database suitable for workgroup or department level applications Custom Install—Allows Oracle DBA to customize the Enterprise Edition by selecting products to install. Do this if Oracle DBA want to add a component to your database that would not normally be installed or prevent certain components from being installed.

Do Oracle DBA want to create a starter database in addition to installing the Oracle software? To create the database, the installer automatically launches the Database Configuration Assistant at the end of the installation.


If Oracle DBA want a preconfigured database installed, Oracle DBA can select one of the following database types, optimized according to usage: General Purpose Transaction Processing Data Warehouse If Oracle DBA want to create an custom database where Oracle DBA configure your own database structure, you can select an advanced install. What are your Database Configuration Options?

These include your Global Database Name, Oracle System Identifier (SID), and whether to install the example schemas. The Global Database Name is the full name of the database which uniquely identifies it from any other database. The global database name is of the form database_name.database_domain as in sales.us.acme.com. The database name portion sales is a simple name you call your database.


The database domain portion us.acme.com specifies the database domain in which the database is located. Together database name and domain make up the Global Database Name. Oracle recommends that you install the example schemas so that you can run many of the examples in the documentation.

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