Re: SGADEF no longer supported in Oracle 8.1.5 .. need to find how to detect a db is open from a script !

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From: Steve Adams <steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 04:40:26 GMT
Message-ID: <38990637.206360991@news.eagles.bbs.net.au>

Hi Dominic,

Have a look at the oiconnect executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. It may do what you want.

Regards,
Steve Adams

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:22:00 -0000, "Dominic Cribbin" <dominic.cribbin_at_cognotecSTOPSPAM.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am currently migrating a script that we used to take cold backups of an
>Oracle DB on a Unix Sun Solaris machine. We are currently using Oracle8i
>8.1.5, my problem is that "sgadef" is no longer supported in the version of
>Oracle. Can anyone advise my on what the equivalent or similar variable is
>in Oracle 8.1.5 .... or what setting tells the script that the database is
>currently open.
>
>Any advice would be great. Thanks.
Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 22:40:26 CST