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How to Install Oracle Database 21c on Windows

For Oracle database 19c installation on Windows, you may go for it.

Extract Oracle DB Home 21.3 Image

Since release 18c, all database software installation packages has become image-based to save installation time, so we start the procedure from uncompressing DB home 21c image to ORACLE_HOME.

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You don't need to create the directory of ORACLE_HOME in advance, it will be created if there's no such directory.

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In this case, ORACLE_HOME is:

C:\app\oracle\product\21.3.0\dbhome_1

As a result, all files are extracted to ORACLE_HOME.

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To know if the server meets the requirements of Oracle product or not, we may perform a prerequisite check before installation.

Install Oracle Software 21.3

After the image has been extracted, you can click on "Setup.exe", or run it in CMD command line.

C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\app\oracle\product\21.3.0\dbhome_1

C:\app\oracle\product\21.3.0\dbhome_1>setup.exe
Launching Oracle Database Setup Wizard...
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Create Oracle Database

We click on Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to initiate the database creation process.

Run DBCA (Database Configuration Assistant)

Run DBCA (Database Configuration Assistant)

Please note that, don't directly run dbca in CMD command line, it'll fail later.

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The database is running.

One last move is to open port 1521 for your incoming connections on windows server.

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