Re: Hot and Cold backups

"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message news:1121294237.590058.225260_at_g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >If the database had been brought down "immediate" to perform
> >the backup, it performed a checkpoint but is not necessarily
> >current. It seems to me that there is the possibility of losing
transactions?
>
> Shutdown immediate will rollback the transactions. Shutdown
> transactional will wait for them to finish. Either may take forever
> and can be very frustrating. A common mistake on some versions is to
> forget to stop the "intelligent" agent before shutdown.
>
> What you should be scolded for is not reading this in the fine manual
>

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/start.htm#6370
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> http://91x.com/media/Cantore_run_nin.mp3

Actually, this time I did read the manual (I'm learning that lesson at least), and I understand the difference between shutdown immediate and shutdown transactional. What I don't understand is this... If I shutdown immediate and the uncommitted transactions are rolled back, what happens to those transactions? Are they discarded? Received on Wed Jul 13 2005 - 17:43:06 CDT