Re: Delaying Oracle startup service on NT

Actually, you can tell the service it is dependent on another one. Not quite sure
how it should be done, maybe an NT expert can share that info?

NT will then wait for one service to start, before even attempting to start

the other.

hazledid wrote:

> The OracleStart<sid> service calls %ORACLE_HOME%\DATABASE\STRT<sid>.CMD
> by default, and this batch file contains just one command:
>
> c:\orant\bin\oradim73.exe -startup ...
>
> If you were to insert some sort of sleep command into STRT<sid>.CMD,
> before the ORADIM73 command, then I would expect the Oracle startup
> to be delayed. I would have thought that even something as crude as a
> GOTO loop which executes several thousand times should do the trick.
>
> This doesn't work?
>
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