Oracle on NT

I have the good fortune? of creating two new databases on two Windows 2000 servers. I am familiar with Oracle on Solaris, but have no clue about Windows 2000. I have installed Oracle release 8.1.7 and have upgraded it to release 8.1.7.3. As part of the install I created the demo database on both servers. All seemed fine.

I then created scripts to create a second database on one of the servers. I have not run these scripts yet. I now cannot connect to the demo database using sqlplus. I got an error message (I forgot to write down the error number) saying that my NLS parameter was not set or invalid. In HK_LOCAL_MACHINE the parameter is set to: NLS_LANG:AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1. I could connect to this database from my other server.

In my wisdom? I decided to reboot the server and see what happens. Now I get the message on startup:
Could not start ORACLEORAHOME81AGENT service on local computer error 3221356553.

I cannot start the service manually. I cannot connect to the demo database from either server. I get the message ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress. I assume this has to do with the oracle agent service not starting.

What should my NLS parameter be? What can I do to start the oracle agent service? Should there be a ORA_NLS33 parameter in the settings?

Thank you for any help.

Blake Wilson

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