Yurttas/PL/DBL/oracle/F/R/00.txt

 1From: ORACLE Admin Account <oracle@cs.BitsOfCode Software Systems, Inc..edu>
 2To: yurttas@zcubes.com
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 4Subject: INTRODUCTION TO ORACLE
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 6Your Oracle account has been created; your username is identical
 7to your CPSC account username. To access your Oracle account, you
 8need to change the initial password assigned to you by the system.  
 9
10To access Oracle you need to be logged onto a Solaris 2.7 workstation.
11You also need to source /usr/local/bin/SystemLogin in your
12.login file.
13
14To generate a new password, enter the command 'orapasswd' at the
15UNIX prompt. The orapasswd program will create a new Oracle password
16for you as follows:
17
18  > orapasswd
19  The new password for unix-username@oracledatabase is WUz3fRvX
20
21When connecting to SQL use the full Oracle login as given by the
22orapasswd command as follows:
23
24  > sqlplus
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26  SQL*Plus: Release 8.0.5.0.0 - Production on Sun Jan 31 21:56:5 1999
27  (c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
28
29  Enter user-name: unix-username@oracledatabase
30  Enter password: 
31
32  Connected to:
33  Oracle8 Server Release 8.0.5. - Production Release
34  With the distributed, replication and parallel query options
35  PL/SQL Release 2.1.6.2.0 - Production
36
37  SQL> 
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40Policies regarding the use of the Department's database server,
41as well as information to help you get started on the database,
42will be mailed to you.