Oracle silent installation (1): DBCA

Well, I got database installation in silent mode. And it is so straightforward. Not bad at all.

Steps
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1) Create DBCA template file , it will create ***.dbt under you $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates. You can even reuse existing template file.
2) Run DBCA with -silent and other command options.
That is all you need.

Example
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$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca -silent -createDatabase -templateName "$ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates/mytemplate.dbt" -gdbName MYDB -sid MYDB -listeners "listener_MYDB" -nationalCharacterSet "AL16UTF16" -characterSet "WE8MSWIN1252"

Creating and starting Oracle instance
1% complete
3% complete
Creating database files
4% complete
7% complete
Creating data dictionary views
8% complete
10% complete
11% complete
12% complete
13% complete
16% complete
17% complete
18% complete
19% complete
Adding Oracle JVM
25% complete
31% complete
37% complete
38% complete
Adding Oracle Data Mining
39% complete
40% complete
42% complete
Adding Oracle Text
43% complete
44% complete
45% complete
46% complete
Adding Oracle XML DB
48% complete
49% complete
50% complete
53% complete
54% complete
Adding Oracle Intermedia
55% complete
65% complete
Adding Oracle OLAP
66% complete
67% complete
68% complete
69% complete
Adding Oracle Spatial
70% complete
71% complete
72% complete
77% complete
Adding Oracle Ultra Search
78% complete
85% complete
Adding Enterprise Manager Repository
87% complete
88% complete
Completing Database Creation
90% complete
91% complete
92% complete
93% complete
97% complete
100% complete

Look at the log file "****/cfgtoollogs/dbca/MYDB/MYDB.log" for further details.

Conclusion
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It does SAVE TIME and EFFICIENT even in single database creation. How about 10 or 100 databases? Think about it.