Originally posted by adewri
The first step that dbassist does while creating the database is

set ORACLE_SID=SID_NAME

so it is not required to set the ORACLE_SID before database creation if you are using dbassist
Thas correct Amar...i did face same kinda probs while creating DB using DB assist and when i changed registry value it worked..

rather environmental variables will also do....

some times windows sucks.

Abhay.