Yes, base can be same. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Uzzell, Stephan <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Morning, all, > We're slowly starting to work with 11.2.0.2 for more of our environments, > and learning some of the tricks and gotchas with it. > > One question that we have not found a logical answer for is handling the > directory structure (we're on Windows, but I suspect this is broader than a > Windows question). In our 10g installs, we aimed for a very simple > directory structure for our three Oracle Homes: > > D:\oracle\1020\CRS > D:\oracle\1020\ASM > D:\oracle\1020\DB > D:\oracle\admin\... for the ASM and DB dump destinations. > > 11g has changed things by a) adding the ORACLE_BASE as something we need > to explicitly define; and b) the out-of-place upgrades. The out-of-place > upgrades are not too much trouble - we'll simply change the directory name > from D:\oracle\11201\... to D:\oracle\11202\... and so on. > > The Oracle Base, however, is something we're struggling to find a best > practice for. For the Grid Infrastructure, the recommendation (and OUI very > strongly suggests this) is to put the ORACLE_HOME outside of the > ORACLE_BASE; for the Database, the Home should be within the Base. > > How do people handle this? Can the two Oracle Bases be the same? > > Any advice on this would be appreciated... > stephan > > Stephan Uzzell > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Thanks & Regards, Taral Desai -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l