Re: Why is it so difficult to shutdown Oracle?

From: Mauro Fossa <fossa_at_its.it>
Date: 1996/02/01
Message-ID: <4eprgf$4r4_at_galileo.polito.it>#1/1


Renato Brazioli <brazioli_at_sodalia.it> wrote:

[snip]

> They are all safe. The first one ensures that all transactions complete
>before shutting down, the other two don't but database integrity is
>still
>guaranteed. It depends when you want to wait, at shutdown time or
>startup time.

It also depends on what you're doing at the moment. If you want to bounce the database because one of your SNPx processes is looping at 100% CPU trying to refresh your snapshots nothing else but a SHUTDOWN ABORT will do it.

> Of course it becomes a problem just if you have big transactions.
 

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Mauro Fossa
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