Creating a Database Manually
1) Choose a unique instance and database name.
2) Choose a database character set.
A database character set must be defined. An optional national character set can also be defined. For example:
- Character set AL32UTF16
- National character set AL16UTF16
3) Set operating system variables.
Four environment variables must be set: ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, PATH,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
- ORACLE_HOME: The top directory in which the Oracle9i server is installed.
- ORACLE_SID: A user-definable name assigned to an instance of a database. Used to distinguish different database instances running on one machine
- PATH: Defines the directories the operating system search to find executables.
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Defines the directories in which required library files are stored.
4) Create the initialization parameter file.
The initialization parameter file is create