If you want a successful mount, then yes. Otherwise, you get a 'mismatch'
error, where Oracle spots the database name as stored in the control file
doesn't agree with the one in the init.ora.
Regards
HJR
"frank" <frankw_at_qd.lucent.com> wrote in message
news:9mvbv1$d15_at_nntpb.cb.lucent.com...
> Hello,
> As I understand, when I want to start a Database, the procedure is as
> follows,
> 1) Start up the instance;
> 2) Mount the database;
> 3) Open the database.
> What I want to know is that, when I started up the instance, does it mean
> that I can only mount the database which is in the initialization file's
> db_name?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Frank
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 03 2001 - 15:40:10 CDT
