Re: ORA-12505 What Is It?

From: Jim Yoshii <yoshii_at_planet.net>
Date: 1996/12/17
Message-ID: <32B6F9F5.3F38@planet.net>#1/1

Leo Bichon wrote:
>
> We have just installed Oracle Workgroup Server on
> NT 4.0. We chose not to install the starter database.
>
> After the installation, we created new SID instances
> (2 specifically) using the instance manager. Shortly
> thereafter, we shut down these instances in favour of
> running scripts to create our own databases, as the
> one offered by the instance manager falls a little
> short. No big deal, WRONG! When we tried to
> start up the instances, we received this ORA-12505
> error? Of course the documentation skips over this
> particular code. Can someone help? We would really
> appreciate it. email me ...
>
> leo_at_gates.com

I think you can ignore that error message till you get you listener.ora file straightened out. Try connecting internal_at_2:SID and starting up your instance as usual. Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CST