From the course: Oracle Database 12c: Administration
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Use DBCA to create a database - Oracle Database Tutorial
From the course: Oracle Database 12c: Administration
Use DBCA to create a database
- [Instructor] After we have successfully created and started an Oracle listener we can move onto the main course, which is installing and configuring an Oracle database. In order to do that we'll use Oracle's DBCA utility, which stands for Database Configuration Assistant. To start this utility go back to your terminal window and type cd $, and then in uppercase, ORACLE_HOME. Again, this will take you directly to your Oracle Home folder. Inside this folder go to the bin subfolder and from there you can run the DBCA utility. The DBCA utility, or Database Configuration Assistant, is an Oracle wizard that will create a database and an Oracle instance for us based on parameters that we'll supply. Remember, just installing the Oracle software will not get you a database. You will need to actively create a database. In the first screen we can select the Create Database option and click Next. Here we have two options we can select from, either create the database using the default…
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