Re: SVRMGR on the way out?

Server Manager has been a decremented feature for some time, and it is indeed gone in Oracle9i. I recall that using SQL*Plus for STARTUP/SHUTDOWN resulted in some kinks when 8.1.5 and 8.1.6 were released. Hopefully, those kinks no longer exist.

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On 16 Jul 2001 08:26:12 -0700, alanolya_at_invera.com (Alanoly J. Andrews) wrote:

>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 - 21:14:55 CDT