From: anacedent@hotmail.com   
      
   Park Yeon Jo wrote:   
   > After I installed oracle8i (8.1.7) on Windows XP Professional, it did   
   > create the DB by default   
   >   
   > But I can't connect to SQLPlus, so when i am trying to connect throu   
   > internal or system it is flashing me this error.   
   > Can you please help me.   
   >   
   > < Error Displayed >   
   >   
   > ORACLE not available   
   > shared memory realm does not exist   
      
   It appears that Oracle is not running.   
   The solution is to statr Oracle.   
      
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