Re: Can't open database - Newbie

Thanks Barry, but we ended up restoring from our old backups. We didn't actually lose much information. Which is good. I didn't try to rebuild the control files, if something similar happens again I'll keep that option in mind. Anyway, things turned not to bad. Thanks again.

In article <01bea895$3dc581a0$3af893cb_at_dba>,   "Barry" <odbc_at_mailexcite.com> wrote:
> ...... seems strange, I have'nt seen an ORA-00600 before but from the
> what you describe, it is likely your control files could be corupted
> because
> the wrong init.ora was used. Have you tried rebuilding them ?
>
> farrellyr_at_my-deja.com wrote in article
<7ik95a$7jh$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> > We are having a problem opening our database. Keep getting error
ora-
> > 00600. We have 2 databases running on the same server (NT4-SP4 -
> > Oracle7.3), and we started our test database without specifying
which
> > init.ora file to use, and it used the same file as our production
> > database.
> SNIP
> >
> >
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