Preface

This guide and Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for HP OpenVMS provide instructions for installing and configuring Oracle Database 10g on the following platforms:

• HP OpenVMS Alpha

• HP OpenVMS Itanium

Documentation for the products that are included with this software is in the Oracle Database generic documentation set.

For important release information related to this product, refer to Oracle Database Release Notes for HP OpenVMS.

Intended Audience

This document is intended for anyone responsible for installing Oracle Database 10g on HP OpenVMS Alpha or HP OpenVMS Itanium systems.

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Related Documentation

Information about system administration and tuning for a production database system is provided in the following documents:

• Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for HP OpenVMS

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Reference

• Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

Information about upgrading from a previous version of Oracle Database is provided in Oracle Database Upgrade Guide.

The platform-specific documentation for Oracle Database 10g products includes the following manuals:

• Oracle Database Installation Guide for HP OpenVMS

• Oracle Database Release Notes for HP OpenVMS

Refer to Oracle Database Release Notes for your platform for important information that was not available when this book was released. The Release Notes for Oracle Database 10g are updated regularly. You can get the most recent version from Oracle Technology Network at

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

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