- Is the listener running? Does tnsping work? What does 'lsnrctl
status' return?
- Is $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora still there? Is it
perhaps corrupted?
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
>
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> Leroy Gonzalez
> leroyg_at_my-deja.com
>
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Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 18:58:55 CDT
