Jeff, Lets ask your self how many max OH do you have in your environment? On our site we have ~20 servers, mostly development environments with relatively many OH-s on each server. No one server has more then 10 OH. Is there any reason to add additional directory level to make life easier? I suppose NO. . >o You can install different products with the same release number in the same >$ORACLE_BASE >o You can install the same product more than once in the same >$ORACLE_BASE I can do it now as well ;) Just name directory a little bit different, for example: 9.2.0.4.db 9.2.0.4.cl 9.0.4.infa 9.0.4.bif etc. Jurijs +371 9268222 (+2 GMT) ============================================ Thank you for teaching me. http://otn.oracle.com/ocm/jvelikanovs.html On 09.08.2004 18:10:33 oracle-l-bounce wrote: >If your site has installed 10g, what $ORACLE_HOME setting are you using? > >Historically, we've used the format $ORACLE_BASE/product/release, so >that >for say, 9i, we would see: > >$ORACLE_BASE/product/9.2.0.2 >$ORACLE_BASE/product/9.2.0.4 > >Oracle has tweaked the OFA so that it now recommends ORACLE_HOME be=20 >set like this: > >$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/{type}_{counter} >where type is the product name: db - database server, client, etc > >So for our first enterprise install, ORACLE_HOME would be set thus: > >$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/db_1 (which actually is version >10.1.0.2) > >Now, let's say we want to patch to 10.1.0.2. What we would do is clone >db_1=20 >into db_2 and then patch the db_2 version, giving us: > >$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/db_1 >$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/db_2 > >Oracle cites the advantages of the new OFA structures as: > >o You can install different products with the same release number in the >same=20 >$ORACLE_BASE >o You can install the same product more than once in the same >$ORACLE_BASE > >However, it's not visually apparent as to the specific release you are >looking=20 >at when perusing the directory structure under the new OFA structure. =20 > > >Thanks! > >Jeff T. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------