This may seem dumb to some, but... that's never stopped me before!

I've installed Personal Oracle on my laptop so I can create a test database to mess around with separate from our corporate database.

During the installation process I created a database, but now what???

It looks like it created a tnsnames.ora entry for it and I can see it created the database files, but I can't connect to it via SQL*plus or anything else.

Are there steps I need to do to start the listener or something like that?

Thanks,

Stew