Re: Power Failure, had to reinstall Oracle8i on Redhat 6.1--why

I know DBA's have had problems with bringing oracle up after it was brought down by force. You may want to talk to a more senior DBA, as I am a developer. I know individual schemes can go down, especially if there was sork going on in them when the crash happens. I also know if Oracles program files become damaged that is it you have to reinstall. Also there are the internal tables that Oracle keeps, you cannot bring up a healthy database if there are any problems with these tables, but there is an admin mode you can go into to fis them. Hope some of this helps.

JB

"Edward B. Wilson II" wrote:

> The power to my server went down, when I rebooted I had to reinstall oracle
> entirely. I tried everything to repair my database, even created a new
> database, but still could not get the listeners to connect to the new
> database. Finally, I had to resort to reinstalling everything from the
> ground up. Surely, oracle must be able to withstand improper system
> shutdowns. Does anyone have any insight into this?
>
> --
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Edward B. Wilson II
Received on Wed Jan 17 2001 - 16:37:14 CET