Re: Automatic startup of multiple instances on one Win2k-Machine??

"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message news:91884734.0309091446.5483af7c_at_posting.google.com...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
news:<3f5d9725$0$246$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
>
> >
> > Things that can cause this behaviour are
> >
> > 1. The service is set to autostart but the instance isn't, daft as it
sounds
> > you can configure these seperately
>
> I'm not sure whether it's me or Oracle that is daft (although I'll
> gladly accept psychotropic prescriptions when dealing with 9iAS), but
> are they now calling things "instances" that don't have databases
> associated with them? That's how I'm reading metalink note 243561.1,
> where they talk about "installed on BOTH Infrastructure AND Mid-Tier
> instances." Or is it just weird for me because I'm trying to do it on
> one box? Or did I lose an instance somewheres? Or is there some
> different definition of home and instance on windows?
>

True: 9iAS has instances, too. But they are not the same instances as we are used to on the back end. Your quote appears to refer to 9iAS.

And yes, I've complained about it in the past, but I'm not sure what you *would* call an, er, 'occasion' of an install of 9iAS.

Regards
HJR Received on Tue Sep 09 2003 - 18:02:50 CDT