Shutdown Abort - Not a Good Idea, Right?

I just recently noticed that, before doing cold backups, our db instances (Oracle 7.3.2/8.0.5, Sun Solaris 2.5.1) are shutdown aborted than brought up and shutdown normal, so that the cold backup can be started immediately after the shutdown normal.

Question is, I thought shutdown abort should not be used except in extreme conditions ie when a db instance cannot be shutdown normal/immediate.

So, I assume that:
This is bad idea right (shutdown abort)? What can happen to the db?

Thanks for any input.

mkb Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 10:09:14 CDT