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Installation Guide on Windows for All Releases of Oracle Database

by Ed Chen
March 21, 2023August 31, 2023
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In this post, we collect installation guides on Windows for all database releases. You may bookmark this page by pressing Ctrl + d. There're 2… Read More »

How to Resolve "Connected to an idle instance"

by Ed Chen
November 9, 2019December 10, 2022
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Connected to an idle instance Actually, Connected to an idle instance is a message rather than an error, it indicates that the database you entered… Read More »

How to Open Port 1521 on Windows Server

by Ed Chen
October 26, 2019December 10, 2022

After our Oracle database 12.2 has been created on Windows server, we should open port 1521 on firewall for incoming connections. For Linux, you can… Read More »

How to Install Oracle Database 12.2 on Windows

by Ed Chen
October 23, 2019December 10, 2022

The goal in this post is to install an Oracle database 12.2 on windows server 2012. Here we separate our job into 2 major steps:… Read More »

How CMD Check Free Disk Space

by Ed Chen
April 1, 2018October 3, 2021

Free Disk Space in Windows Whenever you'd like to check disk free space by command prompt in Windows, you can use examples as below: Print… Read More »

How to Resolve MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer

by Ed Chen
September 2, 2014October 20, 2022

A runtime error thrown by Windows is as below when I was starting an application program: The Program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from… Read More »

How to Show Account Information on Windows in Command Line

by Ed Chen
August 28, 2014October 20, 2022

If you are not sure what capabilities of current account can do on Windows 7 or 8, you can use the following command to show… Read More »

How to Enable Administrator Account on Windows

by Ed Chen
August 28, 2014March 27, 2018

First of all, please open a cmd dialog in elevated mode, you may check the following post to see the tutorial:How to Open Command Prompts… Read More »

How to Open Command Prompts with Administrator Privileges (Elevated Mode) on Windows

by Ed Chen
August 27, 2014February 27, 2021

For opening command prompts in elevated mode, you must be a member of Administrators group. The way how to check account information can be found in… Read More »

How to Run as Administrator in Command Lines on Windows

by Ed Chen
July 24, 2014October 20, 2022

Generally, we do not log on Windows as Administrator to do routine jobs, though we are in Administrator group. We usually use a normal user,… Read More »

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