Re: OracleServiceSID - shutdown question

Hi Sybrand,

Thanks again...

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> 1 A proper shutdown abort would reflect in the alert log file and this
> shutdown doesn't. The only thing you see is the crash recovery. This brings
> me to the assumption that stopping a service simply kills all threads
> associated with them.

Hmmm, that doesn't sound very funny to me... I'll try to find this one out for sure.

> 2 Oracle decided to implement their software as an NT-service and NT
> services work this way. Call them both accomplishes in this crime. Or better
> still, while Oracle (at least this is known fact about Larry) definitely
> dislikes NT, they simply can't afford not to make their software available
> on NT.

The last thing I know. I can't afford to say that I don't want to work with MS as well.. ;-)

> 3 No, as far as I know there isn't. I didn't do any research because I have
> always been administering Oracle on NT servers, and that server simply was
> never shut down. Of course NT stops the services, which in turn.. etc...
> I always considered the effect of this 'crash' as marginal.
Well, as a mentioned before, for me now it isn't a big deal (I didn't even notice it until I looked in some logfiles). But it can be dangerous if there are other users working on the database.

> 4 A while ago I came across someone making fun of the shutdown procedure of
> Windows by means of the startup button. But frankly, the only really stable
> operating systems are Unix and especially VMS. We all know what the fate of
> VMS is going to be. Sic transit gloria mundi!
Ok, ok. Don't ask me things about Unix. I would like to know about it, but I did not jet end up with it yet. But then again, I'm just a starter...
And I don't want to start a discussion like the one about MS-SQL server vs. Oracle (that was the point in the first please, wasn't it?). (And don't throw latin on me please, I always regretted it not choosing latin on my VWO ('highschool'))

B.t.w. you don't accidently work with Microstation (from Bentley systems) yourself, do you?

Groetjes,

Miriam Received on Thu May 20 1999 - 17:45:09 CDT