Re: how to find instances on server ??

> If it's *ix, ps -ef|grep dbw
> If it's BG, Control Panel/Services
>
> Are there any other OSs out there these days? :-(

There's always IBM mainframes. A few poeple still run those. And I have a client that is still running Oracle 8 on Novell. Not a supported platform to be sure....

Cheers,
Brian

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