SVRMGR on the way out?

I've heard in this NG that Oracle 9i does away with "internal" and also the utility SVRMGR. All functions of SVRMGR are reportedly available in SQLPLUS. I know of at least one function which SVRMGR can do and SQLPLUS cannot (in Oracle 8i), ie to connect to an Oracle Instance which for some reason is in a "permanent" shutdown state. You can mimic this by starting the shutdown command and doing an interrupt (^C) before the shutdown completes. If you then quit from SQLPLUS or SVRMGR, you cannot re-connect with SQLPLUS. You will get a message saying that no connections are allowed. But you CAN re-connect by doing SVRMGRL and "connect internal". You can then do "shutdown abort" and complete the shutdown process.

Possibly there are some other such differences, too. I hope 9i has truly preserved all of SVRMGR's and INTERNAL's capabilities.

Alanoly Andrews. Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 10:26:12 CDT