I'd just like to add to the above that I'm not a DBA by profession or Sys Admin, I'm a Test Analyst hence why I don't have in-depth knowledge (deployment and setup) of either Oracle or SQL Server databases and this is the reason that I'm so stuck. I want to get experience of using ALM (just the trial version would do with its included demo project) so that I can go into future roles with a better understanding of ALM than the odd video on Youtube provides.
Does the ALM installation log to anywhere so I can see when it is throwing the 'Failed to validate database connection parameters' message exactly what the issue is? Im not un-technical by any means but a generic, non-descript UI error message doesn't help me find the root cause of my problem.
