Setting up Oracle 23ai FREE on Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition

 Setting up Oracle 23ai FREE on Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition

Howdy!

In this quick blog post, we shall go through the steps of setting up Oracle 23ai FREE on Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition

Prerequisites:

1. An Azure Account - Free Trial / Pay As You Go
2. Oracle 23ai Windows Installer 
3. Admin Rights to install
   
   
   
   Setup:
   
   1) Once you have provisioned a VM in Azure, follow these next steps
   
   2) Download the Oracle Database 23ai FREE from the followinf URL
   
   Get Started with Oracle Database 23ai | Oracle
   
   Here is the link to the installer:

        3) Create a directory on your C:\ say C:\dbfree 

        4) Now Run the installer and follow the screenshots presented in the next few steps.

 

Now if you see this error: Follow the steps outlined and restart the installer: Oracle is aware of this.

Installer rollback and failure when installing on Windows (with INS-32113 error in installActions<timestamp>.out file) - Oracle Forums

In a Windows Command Prompt run the following as an Administrator.

icacls c:\dbfree /inheritancelevel:d

                                              icacls c:\dbfree /remove:g *s-1-5-11

Now review the properties of the C:\dbfree directory

Once you have applied the instructions. 

Now you can see the install making progress

The install will succeed and show a success page as shown below.

Now let's test this out ...

Now let's verify the name, open_mode and platform_name from the V$database view.

SQL> select name,open_mode,platform_name

  2  from v$database;

NAME      OPEN_MODE

--------- --------------------

PLATFORM_NAME

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FREE      READ WRITE

Microsoft Windows x86 64-bit

Congratulations!  You now have Oracle23ai FREE running in Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition!

Stay tuned for more tutorials coming up...

Happy Databasing!! with Oracle 23ai!