Hi
My existing installation of 11gR2 is in the following directory:
c:/oracleee/
so that the following paths to oracle exists:
C:\oracleee\product\11.2.0\...
C:\oracleee\oradata\orcl
etc.
The instance and database names are orcl/ORCL.
My questions are:
1. can I/should I use the same Oracle base directory? i.e. c:/oracleee? Or create a new one?
2. if I use teh same oracle base, can I specify the software location as C:\oracleee\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1? i.e. so that 11.2.0 and 12.1.0 both sit under oracleee/product?
3. can I use the same oradata location? i.e. C:\oracleee\oradata because under oradata there is a directory called orcl which corresponds to the instance/database name
4. would I then set the global database name to something like orcl12?
My main concern is I've read people saying when installing multiple versions, they can all sit in teh same oracle base, but inside my oracle base (c:oracleee) are teh following directories:
$ >ls "C:\oracleee"
admin cfgtoollogs checkpoints diag flash_recovery_area oradata product
So I'm concerned that if I install 12c into the same oracle base, is it going to work? I don't want to mess up my existing installation of 11g. Is creating a new oracle base e.g. c:oracleee12 a better way to do this?
One final question is regarding the container database...this is new in 12c..will I create difficulties for myself if I create teh db as a container db?
Thanks a lot in advance.