Re: ORACLE on WinNT3.51: Proper Shutdown?

Try look here:

  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mlavergn/orasafe.exe

Mark Wagoner wrote:
>
> mkie_at_izb-soft.de (Michael Kiesel) wrote:
>
> >ORACLE 7.2 does not do a SHUTDOWN when the NT-Server is shut down. It seems
> >like the ORACLE processes/threads are simply killed which causes the DB to
> >do a crash recovery on every startup!
 

> >Is this due to a design problem in NT or an implementation problem in
> >ORACLE? How can we solve this?
 

> >Has anybody faced this problem before? Any solutions? TIA!
 

> >--
> >Michael Kiesel
> >mkie_at_izb-soft.de
>
> You are correct, when NT goes down, it simply kills the Oracle services.
> There is a service available which is supposed to shutdown the instance for
> you. I got it off the web some where, but I can't remember where. I still
> have the zip file, if you want I can e-mail it to you.
>
> I haven't had time to check if this add-on actually works. The read-me
> file does say that, by desing, NT gives all processes roughly 20 seconds to
> clean up and exit before they are killed. So if you have a large database,
> this still may not do the trick.
>
> --
> Mark Wagoner
> mwagoner_at_iac.net
Received on Thu Nov 14 1996 - 00:00:00 CET