Installing the ACME Sample Database on Oracle 9i (Windows) Using SQL*Plus

Following are instructions on how to install ACME sample database on Oracle 9i (Windows) using the SQL*Plus utility (explained in Appendix E).

1. If the Oracle services are not started, start them as described in Appendix D.

2. Copy the D:\sqlbib\oracle_acme (where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive) directory from the CD-ROM that comes with your book to the C:\ directory of your computer.

3. Start SQL*Plus from the command line by typing:

   C:\> sqlplus
   			 /nolog

4. If you want to create a log file, use the spool command (described in Appendix E). For example, if you want the resulting log file load.log to be created in the same directory, the other files you need are:

   SQL> spool
   			 C:\sqlbib\oracle_acme\load.log

5. Run script C:\sqlbib\oracle_acme\load.sql:

   SQL>
   			 @C:\sqlbib\oracle_acme\load.sql
   

6. This script creates the Oracle ACME database. Stop spooling (if started) by issuing:

   SQL> spool
   			 off

7. Type quit to exit SQL*Plus.

   Note

   Script  load.sql runs two other scripts,  create_acme_ora.sql and  load_data_ora.dat. The first one creates RDBMS objects (tables, indexes, constraints, views, and so on) and the second script populates ACME tables with data. You may want to run the first script by itself before trying the examples from Chapter 6. You can run  load.sql and  create_acme_ora.sql as many times as you want to create a loaded or empty ACME database, correspondingly.

When you run your script for the first time, you may see ORA-00942 errors (table or view does not exist). That is not a problem; the script is trying to drop tables that do not yet exist.

The most common errors you may see in your log file are in Table F-1.