Re: Oracle processes running wild

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:43:11 -0000
Message-ID: <403b54f0$0$7064$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich_at_westfalen-blatt.de> wrote in message news:c1f3qd$1hh8m3$1_at_ID-93924.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi, Dennis.
>
> Do not kill the processes on UNIX level, this is not safe.
> It can make Your database unusuable.

If this were true it would suggest that Oracle might not survive a power cut to the DB server. Killing the 'wrong' process might cause some interesting issues..

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Tue Feb 24 2004 - 07:43:11 CST