Re: ORA-12203 after Blue Screen of Death

From: Frank van Bortel <f.van.bortel_at_vnl.nl>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 15:12:43 -0700
Message-ID: <37FE6C5B.8FCD89D3@vnl.nl>

leroyg_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> I am running Personal Oracle8 with Designer/2000 on Windows NT
> Workstation 4.0 (dual-boot with Win 95), and yesterday in the middle of
> building an ERD, I got a Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, something to
> the effect of "Beginning dump of physical memory." Needless to say, I
> was very disappointed. I shut the machine off and rebooted NT, but when
> I attempted to choose Start Database from the Personal Oracle8 Program
> menu, I got an error that the database could not be opened, and then I
> got ORA-12203 referring to TNSnames. The TNS assistant got the same
> result, as did trying svrmgr30.exe.
>
> Is my database destroyed, or is there a way to recover it? Is there
> anything else I can provide to shed light on the problem?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Leroy
>
> --
> Leroy Gonzalez
> leroyg_at_my-deja.com
>
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No, it's not destroyed. Your network is not running, start the listener (lsnrctl start, or something the like)

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Met vriendelijke groet/kind regards,

Frank van Bortel
Technical consultant Oracle

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