Re: Newbie Question - Urgent Help

someone wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have started the Oracle Database on Solaris using DBStart.
> How can I check if the Database has started OK and can u give me a sample
> SQL Statement to execute.
>
> Very new to Solaris, sorry for being Dumb.
>
> TIA,
> Santosh

sqlplus qwe/qwe

if you get the error "invalid username/password" then the database is up

hth
connor

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