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Oracle Database Online Documentation 12c Release 1 (12.1)

Installing and Upgrading

Installation guides for Oracle Database 12c and accompanying products on various platforms are collected here.Full Installation Guides describe a wider variety of scenarios with more detail.Client Installation Guides describe installing Oracle database client software on hosts where the database server is not installed.Supplementary Installation Guides describe installing products that are included with the database but installed separately.

Essentials

Describes last-minute features and changes not included in the Oracle Database Documentation Library for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)
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Oracle Database New Features Guide is addressed to those of you familiar with previous releases of Oracle Database and who would like to become familiar with features, options, and enhancements that are new in this release of the database.
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Guides you through the process of planning and performing upgrades for Oracle Database. This book also provides information about compatibility, upgrading applications, and changes in the new release that affect upgrading Oracle Database.
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Describes the installation, configuration, and administration tasks for all activities related to migrating applications to Oracle Database from other databases, including DB2, MySQL, and Sybase.
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Introduces you to the Oracle Database Migration Assistant for Unicode, discusses the database character set migration process, and verifies that there are no character set data problems in a current Unicode database.
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Describes Oracle Database licensing. If you have a question about your licensing needs, contact your Oracle sales representative, or refer to the resources listed in "Related Documents" for more information.
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Linux Installation Guides

Contains important information not included in the Oracle Database documentation for Linux.
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Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Database and Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server on Linux.
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Describes how to install and configure Oracle Database client on Linux.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on Z/Linux systems.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on Z/Linux systems.
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Describes how to install Grid Infrastructure for a cluster software, which includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), on systems running Linux.
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Describes how to install and configure Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) on systems running Linux and UNIX.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on Linux x86-64 systems.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on Linux x86-64 systems.
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This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release.
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This guide provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database Client for Linux on POWER Systems.
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This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release.
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This guide provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database Client for Linux on POWER Systems.
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Microsoft Windows Installation Guides

Contains important information not included in Oracle Database documentation for Windows.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on Windows x64 systems.
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Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Database and Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server on Windows.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on Windows x64 systems.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on Windows 32-bit systems.
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Describes how to install and configure Oracle Database Client on Windows.
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Describes how to install grid infrastructure for a cluster software, which includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), on systems running Microsoft Windows.
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Describes how to install Oracle Real Application Clusters on the Microsoft Windows platform.
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Solaris Installation Guides

Contains important information not included in Oracle Database documentation for Solaris.
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Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Database, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server on Oracle Solaris.
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Describes how to install and configure Oracle Database Client on Oracle Solaris.
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Describes how to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster software, which includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), on systems running Oracle Solaris.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-Bit).
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-Bit).
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-Bit).
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-Bit).
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HP-UX Installation Guides

Contains information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on HP-UX Itanium systems.
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Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Database, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server on HP-UX systems.
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Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Database, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server on HP-UX systems.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on HP-UX Itanium.
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Describes how to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster software, which includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), on systems running HP-UX Itanium.
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AIX Installation Guides

Contains important information not included in Oracle Database documentation for AIX.
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database on IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit).
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Provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Database, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a standalone server on IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit).
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Describes how to quickly install Oracle Database Client on IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit).
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Describes how to install and configure Oracle Database Client on IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit).
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Describes how to install Grid Infrastructure for a cluster software, which includes Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), on systems running IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit).
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Apple Mac OS X Installation Guides

This document contains important information about platform-specific documentation for this release.
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This guide provides instructions about installing and configuring Oracle Database Instant Client for Apple Mac OS X (Intel).
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Fujitsu BS2000/OSD Installation Guides

Contains important information not included in the Oracle Database documentation for Fujitsu.
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Explains how to install, upgrade, and manage Oracle Database on Fujitsu BS2000/OSD systems.
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Supplementary Installation Guides

Products installed separately from the database.

Describes how to install and configure the products available on the Oracle Database Examples installation media.
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Provides Oracle applications with seamless access to IBM mainframe data and services through Remote Procedure Call (RPC) processing.
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Provides Oracle applications with seamless access to IBM mainframe data and services through Remote Procedure Call (RPC) processing.
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Describes how to install and configure Oracle Database Gateway for Sybase, Informix, Teradata, SQL Server, ODBC, and DRDA on UNIX-based platforms.
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Describes how to install Oracle Database Gateway for Sybase, Informix, Teradata, SQL Server, ODBC, and DRDA on Microsoft Windows (32-bit) and Microsoft Windows (64-bit) platform.
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Upgrade and Migration Scenario Virtual Books for Linux

Virtual books that organize information required to perform specific upgrade scenarios.

Upgrade and Migration Scenario Virtual Books for Solaris

Virtual books that organize information required to perform specific upgrade scenarios.