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Re: Shutodown ABORT - Problems?

From: Ruth Gramolini <rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:52:41 -0400
Message-Id: <10620.117087@fatcity.com>


The way we have been told to do it is:1. shutdown abort , 2; startup restict, 3. shutdown immediate or normal, and 4. startup. This lets Oracle clean up after itself if necessary.

HTH,
Ruth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alldaffer, Ron" <ralldaff_at_siemens-psc.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:01 PM Subject: Shutodown ABORT - Problems?

> Hello,
>
> Recently we had a Support Analyst from Oracle's Center of Excellence
> in house to diagnose quite a few problems we have running Parallel Server
> with 8.0.6 and 8.1.6 on IBM AIX RS6000 HACMP Clusters.
>
> The workaround for one of our problems includes issuing shutdown aborts
> on our databases on one member of our cluster if a LAN becomes
unavailable.
>
> I asked Oracles support analyst if there is any problem doing a shutdown
> abort,
> in particular database corruption or errors, and he claimed no, shutdown
> abort
> is a perfectly safe thing to do.
>
> Now, I am not one to routinely second guess employees of Oracle when they
> discuss their product, but I just don't believe this. It seems that a
> shutdown abort
> may cause problems when you try to bring the database back up, especially
if
> issued while one of the background tasks is in the process of moving data
> from
> memory to disk.
>
> Can anyone out there either confirm or deny these words of wisdom from
> Oracle support?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Ron Alldaffer
> Ciber, Inc.
> --
> Author: Alldaffer, Ron
> INET: ralldaff_at_siemens-psc.com
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