Re: Stopping Oracle Instance on NT ?

From: Nathan D. Hughes <nhughes_at_well.com>
Date: 1998/01/20
Message-ID: <6a34e1$gfi$1@was.hooked.net>#1/1

dwhitt_at_csihq.com (Dianna G. Whitt) writes:

>>No, stopping the service is the same a pulling the plug, as far as
>>Oracle is concened. You need to do a normal shutdown first or your
>>backups will be useless.

>So, why is it that Oracle lists this as the proper way to perform NT Scheduled
>Backups in their SupportNotes from August '97?

You might be tempted to follow that advice, but then again you might be tempted to also investigate why your databases need instance recovery after every start. Check the alert.log for evidence.

Oracle documentation is not infallible.

--

Nathan D. Hughes <nhughes_at_well.com>
Senior Consultant, Custom Business Solutions, Inc.

Received on Tue Jan 20 1998 - 00:00:00 CST