hello,

I am a new oracle database administrator. i have to unistall my oracle 8.0.5 and install oracle 8i. I thought i had unistalled oracel 8.05 successfully, but when i try to install 8i i ran into problems. i need to get this accomplished as soon as i can.

please help with detailed steps to unstall oracle 8.05.

i plan my uninstallation in these steps.-

stop all oracle services in control panel
using database assistant to unistall the oracle software
then finally delete the oracle files on on the my computer.

My problems is i am unsure if to delete all files that say oracle, all oradata files. here is my problem.

Please help with steps to uninstall oracle 8.05-the software and the physical files and whatever else i need to do.

Thank you everybody in advance. i have ssen the response to unistall oracle 8i. is it similar steps.