Re: oracle not coming up

"SP" <sdpantDelete_this_to_reply_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<y4S0a.887$8Z5.14547_at_sea-read.news.verio.net>...
> Hi all,
> The DBA that's looking after a development box (oracle 8.1.7 on windows
> 2000) is out. I restarted the box and Oracle and the listner sevvices are
> configured to start automatically but I couldn't connect. It's giving me
> ora-01034: oracle not available, ora-27101:shared memory realm does not
> exist. I restarted the services and still that doesn't work. I don't have
> any other privileged accounts. Why is Oracle not coming up?
> TIA,
> SP

If the oracle is up and running, it probably means you have a bad client environment variable, expecially ORACLE_HOME or ORACLE_SID. See if you have an option under the start menu to set your Oracle home.

jg

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