Re: Not having 8i as a service

Frankly, now I don't have any idea about what you are trying to achieve. You can start the 8i service ... now what do you mean launch it? It all depends upon what problem you are having? Is something not working? Are you unable to do something? Are you looking for some gui thing to pop up and tell that everything is ok?

Are you looking for commands like startup? shutdown? in oracle. If yes then do the following:
sqlplus /nolog
connect /@SID as sysdba
startup pfile='d:/path/to/init.ora'
shutdown immediate
shutdown normal
shutdown abort
??????

Grab a DBA admin book and go with it. It might help you better.

Anurag

"Zhao" <coolshare_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:56275549.0109111710.3dbfcc7d_at_posting.google.com...
> Anurag, another question I missed was
>
> Is there a build-in command of 8i to launch it?
>
> Thanks
>
Received on Wed Sep 12 2001 - 13:09:47 CDT