Re: Oracle8i on NT Oracle 8i on NT error "Oracle not available"

set it up in the control panel under services and set it to start automatic it will/should start up on booting up the nt server..works for me

bstvalue_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. The service starts ok. No problems are reported
> in the event viewer. I do not think there is any
> problem because when I start the instance manually it starts fine, and
> I'm able to do anything.
> I think there must be a place where I can specify that I want the
> *service* and *instance* to start when the machine is
> booted "You can do that in Windows NT Instance Manager " but I do not
> have that. Also I tried to do it using
> ORADIM.EXE which is the CLI for NT Instance Manager but no luck.
>
> Thanks,
> Marwan
>
> In article <960314426.17092.0.pluto.d4ee154e_at_news.demon.nl>,
> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
> > Check for error messages in oradim.log in your Oracle_home directory
 tree.
> > Something *must* be going wrong during service startup.
> > Alternatively you could query the NT event viewer, or the alert log,
 but
> > probably it doesn't get that far.
> > To start the *service* manually use
> > net start OracleService<SID>
> > to capture interactively the error message.
> >
> > Hth,
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> >
> > <bstvalue_at_my-deja.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
> > 8hjct6$p50$1_at_nnrp2.deja.com...
> > > How I can make an Oracle instance start automatic ? And yes, the
 service
> > > starts automatic and fine. I checked it in the Control Panel -->
 Services
> > > and I see it as started. Also going to properties it's marked as
 Automatic.
> > > What I endup doing is connect internal, and I do a manual startup to
 the
> > > database using the pfile parameter.
> > >
> > > Note: The error message I get is Oracle not available.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Marwan
> > > bstvalue_at_hotmail.com
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
>
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Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT