Re: Oracle 9i service on XP won't start???

Ramakrishna C wrote:

>I am sorry if this is a newbie question here. Installed Oracle 9i
>Enterprise Server on my XP Professional. The Oracle service will keep
>showing that it is 'starting'. Doesn't start even after a few hours. Any
>ideas?
>
>TIA
>
>Ramakrishna
>
>
>

I'll go with Frank's response ... how do you know its not started and what do the logs say.

But I will also go a bit further ... if it is in fact not starting ... use oradim to drop the Oracle service
and recreate it. Make sure when you recreate it use use the startmode parameter 'a'.

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