RE: To autostart database or not?

I wrote a custom script here for the sa... one stop shopping for shutting and starting everything on any server for patching etc. Operates of of a custom environment setting script and oratab. It will operate on all or any listener, database, agent, and all Oracle managed services. I desired he can exclude any with oratab.

Works for me.... he was getting frustrated with all of the details that varied not only among oracle servers, but other applications as well, and dependent databases.

For individual ones . oraenvset SID sqlplus...

Never called me since. Logs everything to screen and disk.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
joel.patterson_at_crowley.com
x72546
904 727-2546

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com
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Subject: RE: To autostart database or not?

We used to have our SAs restart using a script until the day the standby database server crashed and they used the regular database startup script to restart it.

After that we asked to be called.

Jay Miller
Sr. Oracle DBA
x68355  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Luis Fernando Cerri Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:54 PM
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Subject: Re: To autostart database or not?

Why not give the SA the minimum knowledge to use dbshut/dbstart and always update your /etc/oratab when you create, update or remove an instance? I've worked this way for years and SAs always did a good job. Of course I always change the shutdown method to immediate on dbshut.

If I cannot trust that Oracle do a minimum quality health-check at startup I should not sleep by other reasons.

Just my thinking.

Best regards,
Cerri

2007/5/10, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
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> Dwayne,
>
> You are not being over-controlling if you want to be called to come in
> every time the server burps. That is the only issue.
>
> Personally, I do not want to be called. Let Oracle come up by itself
> and only call me if it fails to start.
>
> Tom
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Dwayne Cox
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:38 AM
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>
>
> We are running a few Oracle9i and 10g databases on RHEL and I have
> always opted NOT to have the databases automatically restart when the
> server goes down due to something unexpected. My thinking was that if
> the server crashed, then I want to be there to bring up the databases
to
>
> assess and repair any damage (yes, I am the only production DBA).
>
> Am I being overly controlling? Looking for other opinions and
thoughts
> on the matter.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Dwayne Cox, Corporate DBA
> Info Tech, Inc.
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