Re: What is Idle Instance

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 10 Jan 2007 05:08:21 -0800
Message-ID: <1168434501.769085.162140@o58g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>

Gaurav Upadhyay wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am basically a SQL Server DBA and just starting out with Oracle and
> soon hope to be an Oracle DBA as well.
> I have a basic question that what is an Idle Instance.Is it that
> Instance has been started but database has not been mounted or Is it
> that instance has not been started.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards

If I were you I would start with Tom Kyte's new book "Expert Oracle Database Architecture". Reading that book cover to cover 2 or 3 times will help a lot in transitioning from SQL Server to oracle. Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 07:08:21 CST