Re: Hot and Cold backups

>If the database had been brought down "immediate" to perform
>the backup, it performed a checkpoint but is not necessarily
>current. It seems to me that there is the possibility of losing transactions?

Shutdown immediate will rollback the transactions. Shutdown transactional will wait for them to finish. Either may take forever and can be very frustrating. A common mistake on some versions is to forget to stop the "intelligent" agent before shutdown.

What you should be scolded for is not reading this in the fine manual http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/start.htm#6370

jg

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