> Two different things..
> The NT Service ( your manual one) controls the loading/running of
Oracle.exe (and other things)( the underlying Oracle
> programs that ALLOW an instance to be started) -
> The Registry entry controls the behavior of the instance ( identified by
the _sid_ in the name) when the NT service( the one
> in the Services list ) starts ..AUTO in this case means an automatic
startup of the database instance...Like issuing
> a 'startup pfile=whatever.ora' from SvrMgrl or SqlPlus...
>
>
>
> Clients usually do not have these registry entries since they are
Server-centric...
My bad. I meant "client's [customer's] server", not "client".
Received on Mon Dec 17 2001 - 10:41:32 CST
