Re: Start service with VB

"scotty" <invalid-spammer_at_invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:k47ktuopbol4qb66bodc8cfe5dou58k7aa_at_4ax.com...
> Really, why so? Whats the differnce starting an oracle service through
> NT service's in administration tools or programatically?

I really wouldn't want to do it in vb since a simple command or batch file will do the job equally well. Never the less I agree.

>
> At the end of the day, I just want to allow user on the network to
> start and stop oracle - it's only being used for college assignments
> and for some unknown reason (maybe miserlyness) I can't get along with
> oracle sucking up 330 mb of my 400 mb of RAM all-the-time.

Can you not configure Oracle to use less RAM (or persuade yourself that that 512mb dimm for 66 dollars is reallly worth it ). If you are using all that RAM for Oracle it will be swapping to disk and having an ,um, detrimental, effect on performance.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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