Windows clustered server: Create Oracle or Oracle RAC databases

View some important considerations before setting up Oracle databases to work with WebSphere Portal.

For information about creating databases, refer to the Oracle product documentation. For information on the recommended database architecture and the databases you will need to create, see the Plan for Oracle topic. Be sure that all databases to be used with WebSphere Portal are created as UNICODE character set databases.

If you are using Oracle 10g databases, also obtain a copy of the ojdbc6.jar file from the Oracle JDBC driver download site, copy it to the WebSphere Portal machine, and update the wkplc_dbtype.properties file with oracle.DbLibrary=(the path to the local ojdbc6.jar). If you are using Oracle 11g databases, also copy the ojdbc6.jar file from the Oracle server to the WebSphere Portal machine and update the wkplc_dbtype.properties file with oracle.DbLibrary=(the path to the local ojdbc6.jar). The typical location is the oracle_home/sqldeveloper/jdbc/lib directory. Record the copy location on local machine for future reference.

When creating Oracle databases for use with WebSphere Portal, you should consider the following information:


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