Hi all,
I want to install oracle client 12.1 on my 64bit windows 8 computer. Do i have to have an oracle software installed first?
I've downloaded all the packages from the oracle website ie, basic, odbc, jdbc, sqlplus and sdk
I have extracted them into one folder c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient. as told to do in the documentation
These are the actions I have taken as suggested by different forums which i have done;
- created a system variable OCI_LIB64 and set the value to c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient.
- created a system and user variable ORACLE_HOME and set the value to c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient.
- created a user variable TNS_ADMIN and set the value to c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient.
- create subfolders "\network\admin" in your 64-bit client folder and create sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora here ie c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient\network\admin
In another installation guide i found, i was told to double click a setup.exe and start the GUI which i didn't see after i extracted all the downloads
Please am missing something? do i have to install oracle database first? i really don't need that.