Re: Start service with VB

Billy Verreynne wrote:
>scotty wrote:
>
>>>If you can start a service from VB you should be capable to start
>>>Oracle from VB.
>>
>> Really, why so? Whats the differnce starting an oracle service through
>> NT service's in administration tools or programatically?
>
>Believe me, it is many times easier to click the STOP SERVICE button than
>try to write stop service code using something like VB.

Not if he cant get in the damn room where the computer is it isn't.

>> 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.
>
>So have him click the START and STOP services button. Set the Oracle
>Services to MANUAL which means that it will not start by default when the
>machine is booted.

Hadn't I just said I was doing that already?

>If Oracle is to be use for colledge assignments, then the student should
>damn well know how to start and stop Oracle services using Service Manager.

Do you always fly off the handle without knowing what you're talking about? What you *should* know, if you had bothered to read what I wrote previously is that I want the ability to start and stop the service over a network but I don't want to hand over admin rights for my whole box or leave my room open 24/7- hence the problem. Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 01:12:07 CST