Re: Oracle 817 crashes when i change sys password.

jehova1_at_dsl.pipex.com (T0GGLe) wrote in message news:<5a657c10.0309110145.41167ac2_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> can someone please explain to me why oracle crashes on my oracle817
> cluster server (W2k) system when i change tehh sys password? The first
> time this happened was when i changed it using dba studio.
> I thought that this might be a problem with that software however I've
> just tried changing the password at the command line (sqlplus) after
> having recreated the password file and hey presto the entire system
> has crashed and won't come back up again.
>
> Now I realise that the internal account is hard coded into the system
> and needs manually putting back in, in fail safe manager, but is there
> anywhere for the sys passwrod to go?
>
>
> I'm now on the phone to oracle support to try to get the system back
> up and running but this is doing my head in. For god's sake why didn't
> we use sql7 or above????????? That works!

Never seen Oracle 817 crashing when changing the SYS password. As your post doesn't contain any clues and any error message, you won't probably get any useful feedback.
But then, given your last paragraph, you just want to rant. Sql7 sucks big time of course. Oracle works. That is, if you RTFM (which people brainwashed by Microsux never do)

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Thu Sep 11 2003 - 08:31:04 CDT