Re: "Thou shalt use 'Shutdown Abort' whenever you shutdown the database." Makes sense?

• Sorry, I have to disagree here... :-)
  **
  **We have a shell script which fires of every night without problem to
  **perform our cold backups: It checks for connected Oracle sessions first,
  **and kills off (with the *UNIX kill* command, and *not an Oracle kill
  **session command*) any sessions it finds; it then pauses for 60 seconds,
  **then performs a shutdown immediate. This script has worked fine for 4
  **years on two different sites, both of which were UNIX based (HP-UX and
  **AIX).
  **
  **Steve Phelan.
  **
  **
  

Well, if you disagree... why do you use the KILL command then ? Your text means that you do not trust oracle shutdown command.... otherwise why to kill the unix process to assure a clean shutdown ? You would not do that with a RELIABLE shutdown immediate wouldn't you ?

regards...

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