Re: OMF or not OMF? DBCA or Manual scripts

  • From: Don Seiler <don@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:53:44 -0500

Personally I like dbca -silent with a response file template, similar to
Frits.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Hans Forbrich
<fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  On 24/03/2014 10:56 AM, Mark Bobak wrote:
>
> My personal opinion, use DBCA.  With a new database version, I might use
> DBCA to generate the script, then read the script, just to see what's in
> there, and then run the script.
>
>  Back in the 7.0, maybe 8.0 days, it wasn't a big deal to create a
> database manually.  Today, w/ 11gR2, 12cR1, there's just a lot of options
> to consider, too many really, to remember from memory.  And really, how
> much value is there in learning and memorizing all that syntax?
>
>  Just my opinion,
>
>  -Mark
>
> I totally concur.  Reading the DBCA generated script is often an
> eye-opener.
>
> But the possibility of either forgetting something and the opportunity to
> debug a hand-coded script does not hold any major appeal any more.
>
> /Hans
>



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Don Seiler
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