Oracle7 Server Administrator's Guide

Considerations After Creating a Database

After you create a database, the instance is left running, and the database is open and available for normal database use. Use Server Manager to subsequently start and stop the database. If more than one database exists in your database system, specify the parameter file to use with any subsequent database startup.

If you plan to install other Oracle products to work with this database, see the installation instructions for those products; some products require you to create additional data dictionary tables. See your operating system-specific Oracle documentation for the additional products. Usually, command files are provided to create and load these tables into the database's data dictionary.

The Oracle7 Server distribution media can include various SQL files that let you experiment with the system, learn SQL, or create additional tables, views, or synonyms.

A newly created database has only two users, SYS and SYSTEM. The passwords for these two usernames should be changed soon after the database is created.

See Also: For more information about the users SYS and SYSTEM see "Database Administrator Usernames" .

For information about changing a user's password see "Altering Users" .